From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jan 30 17:52: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (news-ma.rhein-neckar.de [193.197.90.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C4B614ECE for ; Sun, 30 Jan 2000 17:52:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from daemon@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de) Received: from bigeye.rhein-neckar.de (uucp@localhost) by news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with bsmtp id CAA22956 for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Mon, 31 Jan 2000 02:52:04 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from daemon@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by bigeye.rhein-neckar.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id AAA68683 for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Mon, 31 Jan 2000 00:53:48 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from daemon) From: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Re: GUIs are flawed Date: 31 Jan 2000 00:53:47 +0100 Message-ID: <872iub$231v$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> References: <20000129163556.A69961@tougas.net> <3.0.6.32.20000130031548.00a47b10@mail85.pair.com> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org G. Adam Stanislav wrote: > Actually, they can be binary. For example, gracula sends GIF files to > stdout, and can be piped. GIF files are binary. This is at least possible > under Unix. Sure is, but you give up a lot of flexibility. Try editing binary files with sed, for instance. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message