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From: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Script bits
Message-ID: <884@cbmger.UUCP>
Date: 13 Feb 91 08:21:10 GMT
References: <18ac1a05.ARN2ae4@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au>
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Organization: Commodore Bueromaschinen GmbH, West Germany
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In article <18ac1a05.ARN2ae4@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au> dac@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au writes:
> [about the 'script bit']
>
>Having eight bits is kinda useful, Peter. The 'Script' bit is great. Whilst
>having the machine check to see if a file is a script, is plain dumb. There is
>no reason why a binary should start with any particular sequence of
>characters, right?

There IS. Binaries on the Amiga come in "hunks" (at least the executable
binaries, and I think we talk about them), and these hunks indeed start
with some binary header that is never supposed to occur as the start of
a plain text file.

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