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From: morfeq@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Ali H. Morfeq)
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Subject: Re: Backwards cat
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Date: 16 Dec 89 01:12:43 GMT
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there is procedure written in C in the book :

           "Advanced Unix programming' by Marc J. Rochkind, Prentice-Hall
           1985.

It is in section 2.11. it is exactley what you described. It takes
a file name and output the file in reverse order of lines.
 for example:  if file : dog
                         bites
                         man
 then it will produce:
                        man
                        bites
                        dog


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