In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
on 04/11/2006
at 12:00 AM, Ted MacNEIL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>I was giving 'reasonable' substitutes, ie: what it does.
Print is *not* what it does. It catenates its inputs into standard
output, and in this case standard output was a pipe. The function of
that cat was a simple pass-through, which is why it was extraneous.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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