From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] command-list.txt: group common commands by theme Date: Fri, 08 May 2015 15:02:09 +0200 Organization: gmx Message-ID: <14b541cabe4f1051859364eada40d153@www.dscho.org> References: <554A8084.10506@gmail.com> <554BBBAF.30705@kdbg.org> <0eb58475c6238be314eb4f0be08f8ae6@www.dscho.org> <87egmrth00.fsf@igel.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Johannes Sixt , =?UTF-8?Q?S=C3=A9bastien_Guimmara?= , Git List , Junio C Hamano To: Andreas Schwab X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri May 08 15:02:22 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Yqhv2-0005Ik-Ba for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Fri, 08 May 2015 15:02:20 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751378AbbEHNCP (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 May 2015 09:02:15 -0400 Received: from mout.gmx.net ([212.227.15.19]:63909 "EHLO mout.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750725AbbEHNCP (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 May 2015 09:02:15 -0400 Received: from www.dscho.org ([87.106.4.80]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx002) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0Lp3x6-1ZT3P403AS-00eql0; Fri, 08 May 2015 15:02:10 +0200 In-Reply-To: <87egmrth00.fsf@igel.home> X-Sender: johannes.schindelin@gmx.de User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/1.1.0 X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:Hiz1FZRKPQNcuS+eopJQB2mWK6g1rRvBzQY+YcnbO7VM3I20RfM 57fx9gq527MDGtujC3X/t5XAxZVUsl++CnpOlK+m9UD2/yJPYK+5HBkrkfZoe5xPuBx4zyo ZGIJ0BdWKo9+jEv0d9MxbKxZy3cdhddl6PWelCblmT7ZFXagMrOE/YIWoogCBbf36FRwslU kYq4tc6pvg13jZbHpdZ5Q== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1; Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi Andreas, On 2015-05-08 14:01, Andreas Schwab wrote: > Johannes Schindelin 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- characters plus a terminating > 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 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