[ILUG] repair permissions

[Kenn Humborg]

On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 07:16:12PM +0100, Brian Foster wrote:
>  OTOH, a specialist utility, such as the vis(1) Pike et.al.
>  mentioned, could/should be so extended.  (now that I think
>  about it, I wonder if a charmap(5) file for use with (GNU)
>  iconv(1)/iconv(3) is possible to implement a "UCS `vis'"?)

Blergh.  Last time I ran iconv on a large file (a Wikipedia
SQL dump), it seemed like it wanted to slurp the whole file
into RAM, then transform it and output it.  Not nice when the
file is multiple-100MB.

Someone needs to rewrite iconv(1) as a more stream-oriented 
filter before doing what you suggest.

Maybe I should go log a bug against this...

Later,
Kenn