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From: lws@comm.wang.com (Lyle Seaman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
Subject: Re: filters
Message-ID: <1990Dec15.175917.27136@comm.wang.com>
Date: 15 Dec 90 17:59:17 GMT
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dylan@ibmpcug.co.uk (Matthew Farwell) writes:
>Sorry, but I find typing 'cat foobar' quite a bit easier than typing
>'dd if=foobar of=/dev/tty bs=512'. Strange, I know, but its this little
>idiosyncracy of mine.
> [ ... etc ... ]

So write an alias or a shell script if you want that special functionality.
There's no point in burdening the world with {code, documentation, user
interface} bloat for the sake of features that are adequately provided
elsewhere.

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Lyle                  Wang           lws@capybara.comm.wang.com
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