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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
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