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authorPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2005-05-06 17:57:35 +0000
committerPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2005-05-06 17:57:35 +0000
commitdb028141f5657b56fd9c59910c83e107c4c034ac (patch)
treee4a3c8bfdec1bf0875e8e27ae7c40bf86f17ad68
parent026894fd09828485fdba9cbcb24ae0583f12c58f (diff)
downloadcoreutils-db028141f5657b56fd9c59910c83e107c4c034ac.tar.xz
(dd invocation): New flags "binary" and "text".
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@@ -6881,6 +6881,18 @@ This has no effect when the file is not a terminal.
On many hosts (e.g., @acronym{GNU}/Linux hosts), this option has no effect
at all.
+@item binary
+@opindex binary
+@cindex binary I/O
+Use binary I/O. This option has an effect only on nonstandard
+platforms that distinguish binary from text I/O.
+
+@item text
+@opindex text
+@cindex text I/O
+Use text I/O. Like @samp{binary}, this option has no effect on
+standard platforms.
+
@end table
These flags are not supported on all systems, and @samp{dd} rejects