Hi Andreas, On 2015-05-08 14:01, Andreas Schwab wrote: > Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: > >> It's probably my failure for not finding the documentation on that, but I really would like to be educated. Do you have an authoritative source for that statement? > > http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap03.html > > 3.206 Line > A sequence of zero or more non- <newline> characters plus a terminating > <newline> character. > > 3.397 Text File > A file that contains characters organized into zero or more lines. The > lines do not contain NUL characters and none can exceed {LINE_MAX} bytes > in length, including the <newline> character. Although POSIX.1-2008 does > not distinguish between text files and binary files (see the ISO C > standard), many utilities only produce predictable or meaningful output > when operating on text files. The standard utilities that have such > restrictions always specify "text files" in their STDIN or INPUT FILES > sections. Thanks! Dscho -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html