Author: Stan Eisenstat
Subject: Re: [Cs323] binary files
Date: Sunday, 25 Oct 2020, 18:21:09

    > Message Posted By: Unknown
    >
    > How can we create binary files from the command line to test lzw code on
    > these types of files?

Nearly all of the files in /bin are binary.

To check use the file command:

  % file /bin/ls
  /bin/ls: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, ...

If the output is as above, it is binary.

--Stan-