Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 22:32:37 -0700 From: Bill Campbell <freebsd@celestial.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Re: Cat a directory Message-ID: <20030919053237.GA31095@alexis.mi.celestial.com> In-Reply-To: <JA8AAAAAAgH8RAABYQADV7qgzdhU@master.hel.fi> References: <JA8AAAAAAgFWOQABYQADV7qgzdhU@master.hel.fi> <20030918143306.GF51544@dan.emsphone.com> <JA8AAAAAAgH8RAABYQADV7qgzdhU@master.hel.fi>
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On Fri, Sep 19, 2003, Karlsson Mikael HKI/SOSV wrote: >OK! I admit that it isn't THE BIGGEST problem for me BUT it is A problem. What >I ment in my last mail was that it is the biggest problem concerning cat. Since >someone always seems to cat a binary file without having the knowledge of what >it causes. Teach them to use ``less'' instead of cat. It doesn't have a problem with binary files (and DOS/WIN users have to be retrained in any case since they would normally use ``type''). Bill -- INTERNET: bill@Celestial.COM Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ ``Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.'' -- Frederick Douglass.
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