>
> > Now, either contribute something or be done with it.
>
> I contributed a few clear, well-argumented reasons in favor of my position
^^^ wrong reasons
> that "cat" should change its default behavior. You, otoh, have only
> demonstrated that yo
[it seems I forgot a paragraph]
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Subject: Re: Re:Re: Cat a directory
> > I would
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Subject: Re: Re:Re: Cat a directory
But nonetheless very illustrative of how the OS
>
> However, the purpose of "cat" is to write the contents of a file to STDOUT.
> And yes, in UNIX pretty much everything is considered a file. But that does
> not change the fact that people do not experience a directory as a file, and
> in their use of language also clearly differentiate between
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From: "Matthew Hunt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Karlsson Mikael HKI/SOSV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 6:26 PM
Subject: Re: Re:Re: Cat a directory
> "cat /bin" on Solaris
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Karlsson Mikael HKI/SOSV wrote:
[...]
> which are all supported in for example GNU/Linux ls, except 10 and 11,
> but then they have an extra option to put different coloring on files
> with a special ending. So that archives, moviefiles, soundfiles etc.
> have a special color w
Matthew Seaman wrote (22.9.2003 19:01):
>
>Have you tried typing 'ls -G' using the system ls(1) recently?
>
Yes, I have and I even have it aliased in my .bashrc file like this "alias
ls='ls -F -G'" so that ls will always use colors and type endings. But my point
was that native BSD system ls only
>
> Read my first post before reading this thing so you'll be on the right track
>
> >
> >> Other *NIX systems seem to have done this to their cat program so why
> >> can't FreeBSD?
> >
> >See above.
FreeBSD has a better view of the world than some of the kiddie OSes.
> Try to run for examp
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 09:06:00AM +0300, Karlsson Mikael HKI/SOSV wrote:
> Try to run for example "cat /bin" in Linux, HP-UX, Solaris and other
> *NIXes and I'm 90% certain that they will not show the directory but
> an error message saying something.
"cat /bin" on Solaris 9 does exactly the sam
On Thu, 19 Sep 2003, Karlsson Mikael HKI/SOSV wrote:
> I personally think that some of these tests should be added to the
> real distributable version of cat that comes with FreeBSD cause I
> can't be the only one that this bugs. I mean what could a little more
> code hurt to the program since cat
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.
I personally think that some of these tests shoul
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