In <199902062226.XAA16644@orade.ora.de> Christoph Badura <bad@ora.de> writes:
>So tell me one thing.   Since Unix doesn't have the concept of binary files
>(or rather -- since it treats all files as an opaque stream of binary octets
>-- no concept of non-binary files) how can grep possibly tell that a given
>file isn't a binary file?

Grap already does not treat files as an opaque stream of binary octets:
it imposes/assumes lines terminated by newlines.

>Christoph Badura
-Olaf.
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