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From: Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: sizeof environment variables array = 1?
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Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> writes:

> On my system, file does not include the word ASCII on the description of
> several files that I would consider to be text files (PDF files with
> only ASCII characters, for example).

That's not an unreasonable definition of a text file, but I've never
seen or heard anyone use anything like it before.