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bug#9531: md5sum: confusing documentation for file type output
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Rüdiger Meier |
Subject: |
bug#9531: md5sum: confusing documentation for file type output |
Date: |
Sat, 17 Sep 2011 15:10:37 +0200 |
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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
- bug#9531: md5sum: confusing documentation for file type output, Reuben Thomas, 2011/09/17
- bug#9531: md5sum: confusing documentation for file type output,
Rüdiger Meier <=
- bug#9531: md5sum: confusing documentation for file type output, Eric Blake, 2011/09/17
- bug#9531: md5sum: confusing documentation for file type output, Rüdiger Meier, 2011/09/17
- bug#9531: md5sum: confusing documentation for file type output, Rüdiger Meier, 2011/09/17
- bug#9531: md5sum: confusing documentation for file type output, Eric Blake, 2011/09/17
- bug#9531: md5sum: confusing documentation for file type output, Jim Meyering, 2011/09/17
- bug#9531: md5sum: confusing documentation for file type output, Rüdiger Meier, 2011/09/17
- bug#9531: md5sum: confusing documentation for file type output, Alan Curry, 2011/09/17
- bug#9531: md5sum: confusing documentation for file type output, Rüdiger Meier, 2011/09/17
bug#9531: md5sum: confusing documentation for file type output, Jim Meyering, 2011/09/17