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From: Pierre Beyssac <beyssac@enst.fr>
Subject: Re: bin/72355: Can't run "strings" on a (disk) device, even if you
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The following reply was made to PR bin/72355; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Pierre Beyssac <beyssac@enst.fr>
To: Ryan Sommers <ryans@gamersimpact.com>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: bin/72355: Can't run "strings" on a (disk) device, even if you want to
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 10:14:36 +0200

 On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 11:28:56PM -0500, Ryan Sommers wrote:
 > According to POSIX: "The /strings/ utility shall look for printable 
 > strings in regular files and shall write those strings to standard output."
 
 Well, sorry but I don't quite see in what respect this precludes a
 POSIX-compliant strings from working on devices too (just as FreeBSD
 4.10 strings does).
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 Pierre Beyssac						pb@enst.fr