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- From: mohta@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp (Masataka Ohta)
- Newsgroups: comp.std.internat
- Subject: Re: islands
- Message-ID: <2789@titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 08:50:51 GMT
- References: <C0MKEu.5or@poel.juice.or.jp> <1993Jan11.190644.29108@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <id.8VNW.F9L@ferranti.com> <keld.726930296@login.dkuug.dk>
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- Organization: Tokyo Institute of Technology
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- In article <keld.726930296@login.dkuug.dk>
- keld@login.dkuug.dk (Keld J|rn Simonsen) writes:
-
- >> The big problem, as Ohta pointed out, is the "cat" problem.
- >
- >The cat problem is not a big problem, for text files.
- >You can just automatically convert all of the input files,
- >which can be in different coded character sets, into the
- >coded character set of the output file.
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- If you can't 'cat' two text files just as two binary files,
- the OS is not UNIX.
-
- Masataka Ohta
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