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- From: bgeerdes@igs.com (Bruce Geerdes)
- Subject: Re: Why are 32 bit better than 16 bit pgms?
- Message-ID: <1996Jan26.145726.19818@igs.com>
- Organization: Igs, Inc.
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- Date: Fri, 26 Jan 96 14:57:26 GMT
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- charles stoyer (cstoyer@interpex.com) wrote:
- > In DEC PDP or VAX VMS,
- > you typed a file by saying "type". OK, I could live with
- > "list". But "cat"? Give me a break. Maybe DOS doesn't give you
- > enough room to swing a cat but it doesn't make you type "cat"
- > to type (list) a file or "ls" to get a file directory.
-
- What annoys me about non-Unix system is that when I want to cat a file I have
- to say "type". Give me a break. Suffice it to say that some of us don't find
- the "type" command as intuitive as you do. (Not to say that cat is better, but
- at least it's shorter.. :)
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- bgeerdes@igs.com (Bruce Geerdes)
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