On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 1:17 PM Roderick <hru...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, 15 Nov 2019, Ian Darwin wrote: > > Who needs cat when you have echo? > > Echo? Necessary?! Terrible waste of paper in a teletype terminal! > I remember editing with sos in TOPS 10 after giving the command: > tty noecho.
This is starting to smell like premature optimization. Contrast, for example: $ (echo this; echo is; echo test) >file vs $ cat >file this is a test And tell me: which uses more paper? (Answer: neither, in my case, since I am not using a teletype machine.) Thanks, -- Raul
