The Visible Cat

cottrell at nbs-vms.ARPA cottrell at nbs-vms.ARPA
Sat Mar 2 05:22:13 AEST 1985


> > Let's get User Friendly (user friendly), I wanna get...
> > This poor guy would like to type `type file...'. I realize this is
> > `just a special case' but it's the most common usage for most users.
> 
> $ cd /usr/bin
> $ ed type
> a
> vis "$@"	# or "cat -v "$@", if you have it
> .
> w
> q
> $ chmod +x type
> 
> Next question.  Or, if you have the C shell,
> 
> % alias type vis	# or "alias type cat -v"
> 
> or, if you have the S5R2 Bourne shell, the equivalent syntax for creating
> a function.  Put it in /etc/profile, if you like.
> 	Guy Harris

Gee, Guy I thought you'd have more to say about cat. Maybe I said 
something you liked? Is there a `vis' in S5R2? My only change would
be to `exec vis $@'. See? I can be nice.

	jim
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