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From: ok@quintus.uucp (Richard A. O'Keefe)
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Subject: cat (was Re: rm etc.)
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Date: 26 Nov 88 00:59:39 GMT
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In article <8973@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
>On reading the Ninth Edition UNIX manual some time ago, I was pleased
>to see that some of the worst quirks in the basic utilities had been
>cleaned up.  For example, "cat" worked right without a -u option,
>unlike the System V version.

I didn't remember what the "-u" option did, so I looked in the SVID.
Not there!  Logged in to a V.2 system.  I find there
	cat [ -u ] [ -s ] [ -v [-t] [-e] ] file...
On a V.3 System, there were no on-line man pages (hiss, spit), but
	usage: cat -usvte [-|file]

Does anyone know why the SVID only lists the "-s" option?