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From: Crispin Cowan (crispinWIREX.COM)
Date: Thu Mar 08 2001 - 23:56:12 CST

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    Blue Boar wrote:

    > OK, so now can someone tell me why doing a more on binary files
    > often leaves me sitting in ed?

    This is a bit speculative, but ... I've cat'd & more'd binary files on occasion,
    and as a result had commands that I didn't type get issued to the shell. I assume
    that what's happening is that certain control codes cause the VT100 (or
    whatever) to echo text as if it had been typed on the keyboard.

    Crispin 

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