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Re: find-library-name fails if file (with no extension) exists.
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David Kastrup |
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Re: find-library-name fails if file (with no extension) exists. |
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Wed, 22 Nov 2006 23:18:22 +0100 |
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Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>> Cc: address@hidden
>> From: David Kastrup <address@hidden>
>> Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 20:27:47 +0100
>>
>> > Simple designs have their demerits as well. Witness the "cat
>> > /usr/bin/emacs" snafu on Unix, where you can have yourself logged off
>> > or hanged due to the fact that text and binary data are not
>> > indistinguishable by design.
>>
>> "not indistinguishable"?
>
> Should I from now on point out and mock every minor typo in your
> messages?
I was trying to figure out what point you try to be making since "due
to the fact" does not make sense at all, regardless of where I try
locating a "minor typo".
>> Anyway, are you saying that terminals can't get confused by binary
>> data on Windows?
>
> No. Not in the terrible way the Unix terminal can, anyway, because
> the Windows terminal doesn't interpret certain sequences of
> characters as commands to the terminal driver.
That would not appear to be a consequence of "the fact that text and
binary data are [whatever] by design" at all.
> About the worst you can get is a screen full of garbage and a few
> beeps.
Which is not related to the point you tried making about text/data on
Unix, but rather a consequence of the terminal emulation.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
- Re: find-library-name fails if file (with no extension) exists., (continued)
- Re: find-library-name fails if file (with no extension) exists., David Kastrup, 2006/11/21
- Re: find-library-name fails if file (with no extension) exists., Juanma Barranquero, 2006/11/21
- Re: find-library-name fails if file (with no extension) exists., David Kastrup, 2006/11/21
- Re: find-library-name fails if file (with no extension) exists., Juanma Barranquero, 2006/11/21
- Re: find-library-name fails if file (with no extension) exists., Andreas Schwab, 2006/11/22
- Re: find-library-name fails if file (with no extension) exists., Eli Zaretskii, 2006/11/21
- Re: find-library-name fails if file (with no extension) exists., David Kastrup, 2006/11/22
- Re: find-library-name fails if file (with no extension) exists., Eli Zaretskii, 2006/11/22
- Re: find-library-name fails if file (with no extension) exists., David Kastrup, 2006/11/22
- Re: find-library-name fails if file (with no extension) exists., Eli Zaretskii, 2006/11/22
- Re: find-library-name fails if file (with no extension) exists.,
David Kastrup <=
- Re: find-library-name fails if file (with no extension) exists., Richard Stallman, 2006/11/22
- Re: find-library-name fails if file (with no extension) exists., Juanma Barranquero, 2006/11/22
- Re: find-library-name fails if file (with no extension) exists., Richard Stallman, 2006/11/24
- Re: find-library-name fails if file (with no extension) exists., Eli Zaretskii, 2006/11/21
- Re: find-library-name fails if file (with no extension) exists., David Kastrup, 2006/11/22
- Re: find-library-name fails if file (with no extension) exists., Eli Zaretskii, 2006/11/22
- Re: find-library-name fails if file (with no extension) exists., David Kastrup, 2006/11/22
- Re: find-library-name fails if file (with no extension) exists., Stuart D. Herring, 2006/11/27
- Re: find-library-name fails if file (with no extension) exists., Stuart D. Herring, 2006/11/27
- Re: find-library-name fails if file (with no extension) exists., Eli Zaretskii, 2006/11/28