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From: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
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Subject: Re: Backwards cat
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Date: 18 Dec 89 21:03:27 GMT
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>...and the fourth answer...

Which isn't correct:

	auspex% tail -r /etc/termcap > /tmp/stuff
	auspex% ls -lL /tmp/stuff /etc/termcap
	-rw-rw-r--  1 root       133962 Jul 14 14:39 /etc/termcap
	-rw-r--r--  1 guy         32768 Dec 18 13:01 /tmp/stuff

32768 != 133962.  "tail -r" doesn't reverse the *entire* file, just a
chunk at the end, in the UNIX versions I know of:

	BUGS
	     Data for a tail relative to the end of the file is stored in
	     a buffer, and thus is limited in size.