cat -u

[Henry Spencer]

In article <4864 at bsu-cs.UUCP> dhesi at bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
>     /bin/cat -uv "$file" | /usr/ucb/more -10d
>
>I couldn't get it to work right without the -u option.

This is a bug (albeit a long-standing and widespread one) in your cat.
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