>> I don't like it. We already have tail -f. Changing cat would only be
>> creeping featurism.

>Although it would be useful in the case where you need to take a file, 
>read it into a parsing program of some sort, and use it a la a funnel 
>file..

uh, see the paper arguing against `Berkeleyism' in cat  -[vt].
There has to be _some_ point at which we just say no.

If you want the functionality, why not add a flag to  tail that
means `cat the file and then start tail -f'?