On Tue Aug 18 00:42:24 EDT 2009, mirtchov...@gmail.com wrote: > make sure you teach cat(1) the -v flag. that should make some people > very happy and will widely be regarded as a good move ;)
i believe the point here is that the first paper i read on plan 9 "Plan 9 from Bell Labs", /sys/doc/9.ps points out that dropping the old tools is part of the point! Providing a more efficent way to run the old UNIX warhorses is empty engineering... i'm all for history. but there are plenty of old timey unix projects. - erik