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From: stephen@dcl-cs.UUCP (Stephen J. Muir)
Newsgroups: net.sources
Subject: Re: reversing lines in a file
Message-ID: <556@dcl-cs.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 15-Sep-85 13:37:20 EDT
Article-I.D.: dcl-cs.556
Posted: Sun Sep 15 13:37:20 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 25-Sep-85 03:48:24 EDT
References: <2140@ukma.UUCP>
Reply-To: stephen@dcl-cs.UUCP (Stephen J. Muir)
Organization: Department of Computing at Lancaster University.
Lines: 13
Keywords: tail -r
Xpath: icdoc ivax

In article <2140@ukma.UUCP> slg@ukma.UUCP (Sean Gilley) writes:
>Uh.. folks, in our flavor UN*X, (4.2) ``tail'' has a -r option
>that does just that.  Don't people _like_ tail? :-)

It's SUPPOSED to go right back to the beginning.  It doesn't on OUR 4.2 system.
Try it on the news history file.  All of the alternative attempts I've seen to
do the same as my program have to read the whole file -- mine doesn't.
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