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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: cat -u
Message-ID: <4864@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 26 Nov 88 15:55:53 GMT
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In article <8985@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
writes:
>>Does anyone know why the SVID only lists the "-s" option?
>
>Maybe the people who drew up the SVID wanted to leave out as much cruft
>as possible?

Well, now, it might be cruft, but -u is *useful* cruft.  I have a shell
script containing the line:

     /bin/cat -uv "$file" | /usr/ucb/more -10d

I couldn't get it to work right without the -u option.
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Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee}!bsu-cs!dhesi