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Re: islands

#530
From: Masataka Ohta
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 08:50
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In article <keld.726930296@login.dkuug.dk>
	keld@login.dkuug.dk (Keld J|rn Simonsen) writes:

>> The big problem, as Ohta pointed out, is the "cat" problem.
>
>The cat problem is not a big problem, for text files.
>You can just automatically convert all of the input files,
>which can be in different coded character sets, into the
>coded character set of the output file.

If you can't 'cat' two text files just as two binary files,
the OS is not UNIX.

						Masataka Ohta
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Subject: Re: islands
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