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
