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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: cat -u
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Date: 27 Nov 88 13:24:03 GMT
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In article <4864@bsu-cs.UUCP> dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
>Well, now, it might be cruft, but -u is *useful* cruft.  ...
>I couldn't get it to work right without the -u option.

The -u option is "useful" only when the implementation of "cat" is
broken to start with.  A good implementation benefits not at all 
from the -u option.