bug#9531: md5sum: confusing documentation for file type output

[Rüdiger Meier]

On Saturday 17 September 2011, Reuben Thomas wrote:
> Secondly, looking at the code, this isn't really what md5sum does.
> Rather, it prints '*' if in binary mode (--binary, or if O_BINARY is
> non-zero), and ' ' if in text mode (--text, or if O_BINARY is zero),

BTW I was always confused about the --binary thing.
If you're going to update man pages anyway it would be nice to point out 
that --binary makes a difference only if O_BINARY exists on the target 
system (which is usually not the case for most users I guess).


cu,
Rudi