On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 11:02:17AM -0500, Maiorana, Jason wrote: > Also, imagine the extra load on your system if when you do: > > cat bigfiles | b | c | d | less > > and the text is being normalized back and forth at every step > of the pipeline.
That has nothing to do with the filesystem; pipes are 8-bit clean for completely different reasons (you can pipe binary data through them). (Not that I disagree; this is just a bad example.) -- Glenn Maynard -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
