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Date:      Wed, 30 Jun 1999 18:38:13 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Bill Fumerola <billf@jade.chc-chimes.com>
To:        Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/ac ac.8 ac.c 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.990630183541.2905Y-100000@jade.chc-chimes.com>
In-Reply-To: <37740.930781471@axl.noc.iafrica.com>

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On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Sheldon Hearn wrote:

> On Wed, 30 Jun 1999 18:24:08 -0400, Bill Fumerola wrote:
> 
> > And if you read my mail the entire way down you'll notice that I mentioned
> > cat(1) as something that includes it in the synopsis, but not in the
> > description.
> 
> Taken from the cat(1) manpage's DESCRIPTION section:
> 
>      The cat utility reads files sequentially, writing them to the
>      standard output.  The file operands are processed in command line
>      order.  A single dash represents the standard input.
> 	     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Time to get my eyeglass perscription checked.

> I can accept that cat(1) is a bad precedent, but if it's also _your_
> only point of reference, then it's not making a good case for your
> argument. :-)

Well, grep doesn't have it, cat does. Something has to be wrong.

> Point taken. I should have taken more care to support my smiley with
> words which indicated that I took no offense.

Cool beans.

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