Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/gnu/dist/bc/dc
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: gabriel rosenkoetter <gr@eclipsed.net>
List: current-users
Date: 10/15/2003 10:32:35
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On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 03:23:16PM +0300, Vesa Norrman wrote:
> Fixed cat would be good.

That wouldn't be a fix, that would be breakage.

There are good reasons one might want to cat a directory. (Most
recently for me, perusing file system damage.)

Sure, using a file system debugger is the real way to deal with
stuff like that, but cat is a good enough hammer for a lot of things
other than plain text files to be functional nails.

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gabriel rosenkoetter
gr@eclipsed.net

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