>
> > Now, either contribute something or be done with it.
>
> I contributed a few clear, well-argumented reasons in favor of my position
^^^ wrong reasons
> that "cat" should change its default behavior. You, otoh, have only
> demonstrated that yo
[it seems I forgot a paragraph]
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> > I would
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But nonetheless very illustrative of how the OS
>
> However, the purpose of "cat" is to write the contents of a file to STDOUT.
> And yes, in UNIX pretty much everything is considered a file. But that does
> not change the fact that people do not experience a directory as a file, and
> in their use of language also clearly differentiate between
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From: "Matthew Hunt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Karlsson Mikael HKI/SOSV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 6:26 PM
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> "cat /bin" on Solaris
>
> Read my first post before reading this thing so you'll be on the right track
>
> >
> >> Other *NIX systems seem to have done this to their cat program so why
> >> can't FreeBSD?
> >
> >See above.
FreeBSD has a better view of the world than some of the kiddie OSes.
> Try to run for examp
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 09:06:00AM +0300, Karlsson Mikael HKI/SOSV wrote:
> Try to run for example "cat /bin" in Linux, HP-UX, Solaris and other
> *NIXes and I'm 90% certain that they will not show the directory but
> an error message saying something.
"cat /bin" on Solaris 9 does exactly the sam
