In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
on 04/13/2006
at 12:00 AM, Ted MacNEIL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Excuse me?
>List/type/cat displays a file to the STDOUT.
Neither list nor type are cat, and cat does *not* display a file; it
copies a sequence of files to STDOUT.
>Are you saying that that is an incorrect statement?
Yes.
>Are we arguing semantics?
Most computer-related arguments are about semantics; the difference
between a correct program and an incorrect program that compiles is
only semantics.
>What word would you like to use to say:
dd? lpr?
>"Take the contents of a file/input and display/copy it to another
>device/file?"
Certainly not cat, which isn't limited to a single file and which
doesn't display files.
>LIST has been a term used for years,
Sure, but it has nothing to do with cat, especially in the *ix world.
>Or, are you just obsfuscating your error with baffle-gab?
Are you drunk, or are you just begging the question? The only errors
in this thread are yours. Don't confuse your ignorance with someone
else's dishonesty.
--
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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