Flame Re: pussyfooting
Henry Spencer
henry at utzoo.UUCP
Sat Mar 2 10:57:36 AEST 1985
> > "cat"'s function is to concatenate files. Period.
> >
> > The day this fails to be true is the day "cat" is no longer
> > a UNIX utility.
>
> Yarbles! Great boolshy yarblockles to you!!! This is the kind of
> thinking that keeps SYS V from being as good as 4.2BSD.
I hate to tell you this, but the latest SysV cat(1) is every bit as
brain-damaged as the 4.2BSD one, in the same putrid ways.
> `Cat' is alive
> and well in spite of what DMR said in the BSTJ.
Yes, on V7 and V8 systems. The one on 4.2BSD and SysV is dead and
already rotting.
> Even he can be wrong.
But not this time.
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Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
{allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry
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