how has C bitten you?

David Sherman dave at lsuc.UUCP
Fri Aug 30 15:18:54 AEST 1985


> >ANOTHER FLAG FOR CAT!?!?!? How many places have cat -s?
> 
> The Fortune 32:16 has it.  Means force single spacing on output
> (kinda like uniq) to get rid of excessive blank lines.

For those with BSD systems, or (as in our case) systems with
some BSD utilities, the ssp(1) program does this. (It's used
by man(1) for output to a terminal.)

Dave Sherman
The Law Society of Upper Canada
Toronto
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