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Re: bugs in program "head" and maybe "tail"
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Steven Schubiger |
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Re: bugs in program "head" and maybe "tail" |
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Fri, 14 Sep 2007 20:07:23 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) |
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 03:45:14PM +0200, julien wrote:
> $ man -t ls > ls.ps && ps2pdf ls.ps && rm ls.ps
> $ head ls.pdf
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> the caracteres are strange !
This is not a bug.
head shouldn't be used on binary streams, it is intented
to be used for ASCII streams only.