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Postings from July 2008
Quoth tchrist@perl.com (Tom Christiansen):
>
> I'd rather like a line-discipline-sniffing module that did something
> like /usr/bin/file does via /etc/magic, and lets you then binmode
> and/or $/-mangle appropriately.
>
> Hey, if *that's* not a magic open (ie, using /etc/magic), I sure
> dunno what is! :-)
>
> I don't suppose anyone might know whether one exists already?
I wrote one as a proof-of-concept, and Audrey Tang turned it into
PerlIO::eol, which actually works :).
Ben
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