From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Fri, 08 May 2015 13:02:09 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] command-list.txt: group common commands by theme
Message-ID: <14b541cabe4f1051859364eada40d153@www.dscho.org>
In-Reply-To: <87egmrth00.fsf@igel.home>

Hi Andreas,

On 2015-05-08 14:01, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> 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