From owner-cvs-all Wed Jun 30 15:24:56 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from axl.noc.iafrica.com (axl.noc.iafrica.com [196.31.1.175]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB81614EE4; Wed, 30 Jun 1999 15:24:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sheldonh@axl.noc.iafrica.com) Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.noc.iafrica.com) by axl.noc.iafrica.com with local-esmtp (Exim 3.02 #1) id 10zSmN-0009oj-00; Thu, 01 Jul 1999 00:24:31 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn To: Bill Fumerola Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/ac ac.8 ac.c In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 30 Jun 1999 18:24:08 -0400." Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 00:24:31 +0200 Message-ID: <37740.930781471@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Wed, 30 Jun 1999 18:24:08 -0400, Bill Fumerola wrote: > And if you read my mail the entire way down you'll notice that I mentioned > cat(1) as something that includes it in the synopsis, but not in the > description. Taken from the cat(1) manpage's DESCRIPTION section: The cat utility reads files sequentially, writing them to the standard output. The file operands are processed in command line order. A single dash represents the standard input. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I can accept that cat(1) is a bad precedent, but if it's also _your_ only point of reference, then it's not making a good case for your argument. :-) > The question was more a general opinion/consensus question then one > blaming anyone, as well. Point taken. I should have taken more care to support my smiley with words which indicated that I took no offense. Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message