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From: ndjc@hobbit.UUCP (pri=-10 Nick Crossley)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: V.4 and perror (was: shmat() & shmdt() questions)
Summary: cat is just as before
Message-ID: <88145@hobbit.UUCP>
Date: 27 Sep 90 21:57:10 GMT
References: <1990Sep22.163631.23688@NCoast.ORG> <1990Sep22.215535.16776@virtech.uucp> <-906I93@xds13.ferranti.com>
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In article <-906I93@xds13.ferranti.com> peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>I have a question.
>In V.4 have they finally got all those bloody stupid commands to use perror?
>I'm getting really sick of "cat: can't open <filename>".

In the case of cat, no, it still just prints 'cat: cannot open <name>'.
Some other commands have been altered to have more complete/verbose
messages.
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