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From: moraes@cs.toronto.edu (Mark Moraes)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted,alt.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: tail (was: Backwards cat)
Message-ID: <89Dec16.123823est.2260@neat.cs.toronto.edu>
Date: 16 Dec 89 17:39:26 GMT
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falk@peregrine.Sun.COM (Ed Falk) writes:
>>I am looking for a program that will cat a file backwards.
>The unix tail(1) command will do it.

For small values of "it". Remember that the Unix tail command has a
fixed upper limit on the size of file it will work on. (On most BSD
systems , this limit is 32K, on SysV, it is 4K)