Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site phri.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!talcott!panda!genrad!decvax!tektronix!uw-beaver!cornell!vax135!timeinc!phri!roy From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) Newsgroups: net.micro.att,net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: instability in Berkeley versus AT&T releases (absurdly long) Message-ID: <349@phri.UUCP> Date: Sat, 27-Jul-85 12:14:32 EDT Article-I.D.: phri.349 Posted: Sat Jul 27 12:14:32 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 31-Jul-85 03:18:00 EDT References: <2067@ucf-cs.UUCP> <363@cuae2.UUCP> <2423@sun.uucp> <5819@utzoo.UUCP> Followup-To: net.unix-wizards Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY) Lines: 14 Keywords: cat -v, ls -C Xref: watmath net.micro.att:347 net.unix-wizards:14093 > ... I think both cat -v and ls -C are botches ... > Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology Why is "cat -v" a botch? If you want to see if you have junk in a file it's a lot nicer than "od -c". And what's so terrible about "ls -C"? The multi-column format is much nicer, and it turns out that most of the time it does the right thing (i.e. picks 1-column vs. multi-column mode). Oh, BTW, for you net.micro.att readers, note that I've added a Followup-To: net.unix-wizards line. -- Roy Smith System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute 455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016