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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: cat -u
Summary: dspc
Message-ID: <5105@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 12 Dec 88 20:01:33 GMT
References: <175@ernie.NECAM.COM> <189@wyn386.UUCP> <8910@smoke.BRL.MIL> <8160@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <146@minya.UUCP> <5077@bsu-cs.UUCP> <859@thor.stolaf.edu>
Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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In article <859@thor.stolaf.edu> mike@wheaties.ai.mit.edu writes:
     ...making nonprinting characters visible has nothing whatever to
     do with concatenating files.

But the opposite is quite true.  A program that makes nonprinting
characters printable should accept multiple filenames.

It's then a trivial step to optionally let it pass through all data
unchanged.
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Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee}!bsu-cs!dhesi