bug#9531: md5sum: confusing documentation for file type output

[Eric Blake]

On 09/17/2011 07:50 AM, Rüdiger Meier wrote:
> Maybe you could start to correct it this way:
>
> 1. add option --textmode ...

Rather, --text.  But yes, we need this option, so that --binary can be 
default (like it was meant to be).  On systems where text and binary are 
identical (per POSIX), you want the default to be ' ', not '*'.  And on 
systems where they differ, the major use of summing is to confirm binary 
compatibility, not text compatibility, so --text should be an explicit 
option for O_TEXT and you should default to O_BINARY.  We shouldn't need 
a --binary, but must keep it for compatibility.

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