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In-Reply-To: Message from Ben Morrow <ben@morrow.me.uk> of "Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:24:31 BST." <v8v6m5-cth1.ln1@osiris.mauzo.dyndns.org> > 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 :). Lovely! Thanks much! --tom