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Date:      31 Jan 2000 00:53:47 +0100
From:      naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber)
To:        freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: GUIs are flawed
Message-ID:  <872iub$231v$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de>
References:  <20000129163556.A69961@tougas.net> <3.0.6.32.20000130031548.00a47b10@mail85.pair.com>

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G. Adam Stanislav <adam@whizkidtech.net> 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



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