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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Flame Re: pussyfooting
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Date: Fri, 1-Mar-85 19:57:36 EST
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> > "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
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