Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Binary Diff System in Arch

[Tez Kamihira]

On Wed, 4 Feb 2004 08:59:18 -0800 (PST), Tom Lord <address@hidden> said:
> 
> * text vs. binary files
> 
>   GNU diff currently uses a heuristic to decide that a file is a 
>   binary file before it does any further worth.  _As_I_recall_, the
>   heuristic is to look at the first 1K (or is it 4K) of the file and,
>   if any 0-bytes are found, assume that the file is binary.
> 

_If_I'm_correct_, it's often 8K. but varies with the file system's
internal page size. system dependent.



     - Tez