file not working on executables?

[Dave Korn]

----Original Message----
>From: Gary R. Van Sickle
>Sent: 10 September 2005 10:36

> [snip]
>>> Again, I 100% share the notion that text mounts should not be necessary.
>>> But when even such basic apps as tar get this wrong, I simply don't
>>> see how anybody can realistically entertain the idea that eliminating
>>> them will somehow solve any problems.
>> 
>> You're a lucky guy that you don't have problems with textmode
>> mounts
> 
> Well, yeah I guess, but again, what are these problems of which you speak?

  You haven't lived until you've died in CR-CR-LF hell!

  Particularly when it happens to a binary file :-(

    cheers,
      DaveK
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