Re: find-library-name fails if file (with no extension) exists.

[David Kastrup]

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.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum