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[Lyle Seaman]

dylan at ibmpcug.co.uk (Matthew Farwell) writes:
>Sorry, but I find typing 'cat foobar' quite a bit easier than typing
>'dd if=foobar of=/dev/tty bs=512'. Strange, I know, but its this little
>idiosyncracy of mine.
> [ ... etc ... ]

So write an alias or a shell script if you want that special functionality.
There's no point in burdening the world with {code, documentation, user
interface} bloat for the sake of features that are adequately provided
elsewhere.

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