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Re: ielm uses the cat program
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Juanma Barranquero |
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Re: ielm uses the cat program |
Date: |
Fri, 31 Jan 2003 00:15:41 +0100 |
On Thu, 30 Jan 2003 12:25:20 -0700
Kevin Rodgers <kevin.rodgers@ihs.com> wrote:
> If hexl is distributed with Emacs, how could start-process signal a
> file-error?
The user could delete hexl, if he doesn't use hexl-mode and doesn't want
to have the binary 'round. It's a long shot, but it is certainly posible.
Also, it could have failed building for some reason or other.
> And if it doess, why is cat considered a viable fallback?
I don't know, I didn't write the code, but I suppose the reasoning is
that one or the other are very likely to be around... and if they don't,
well, you'll get an error anyway.
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Juanma Barranquero <lektu@terra.es>