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- From: boyd@prl.dec.com (Boyd Roberts)
- Subject: Re: The Problem with UNIX
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.180804.21797@prl.dec.com>
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- References: <96927@netnews.upenn.edu> <1992Nov11.210729.11676@cs.wisc.edu> <BARNETT.92Nov12092045@grymoire.crd.ge.com> <1992Nov13.030529.6207@bilver.uucp>
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 18:08:04 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov13.030529.6207@bilver.uucp>, bill@bilver.uucp (Bill Vermillion) writes:
- > And some of the lastest bourne shells also have fixed it. In sysv.3.2
- > from Esix if I type
- >
- > cat a b > b I get this result
- >
- > cat: input/output files 'b' identical
- >
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- It has nothing to do with the shell; read the message.
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- cat has done that for a long time.
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- Boyd Roberts boyd@prl.dec.com
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- ``Not only is UNIX dead, it's starting to smell really bad.'' -- Rob Pike
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