On Saturday 17 September 2011, Reuben Thomas wrote: > Secondly, looking at the code, this isn't really what md5sum does. > Rather, it prints '*' if in binary mode (--binary, or if O_BINARY is > non-zero), and ' ' if in text mode (--text, or if O_BINARY is zero),
BTW I was always confused about the --binary thing. If you're going to update man pages anyway it would be nice to point out that --binary makes a difference only if O_BINARY exists on the target system (which is usually not the case for most users I guess). cu, Rudi
