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From: mikel@codas.att.com (Mikel Manitius)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: 8th Edition UNIX in the Labs
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Date: Sun, 6-Dec-87 13:17:33 EST
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Posted: Sun Dec  6 13:17:33 1987
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In article <1954@frog.UUCP> john@frog.UUCP (John Woods, Software) writes:
->>>
->>> ...  There are many other interesting things in the Research UNIX systems
->>> that have not (so far) appeared in the commercial UNIX System V product.
->>
->...here is a partial list of interesting Ninth Edition goodies...
->
-> 	a version of "cat" that has no options

The idea at the time was to weed out all of the unnessecary options in much
of the code, and to create simple code that was less complex, easy to use,
and more efficient.
-- 
					Mikel Manitius @ AT&T
					mikel@codas.att.com

"Up your baud rate!" :-)


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