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From: Dan Cross <cross@math.psu.edu>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] text utility
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 14:42:46 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200307231842.h6NIgk723821@augusta.math.psu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 23 Jul 2003 16:05:14 BST." <babdf485a64c9bd1f49969356d833881@vitanuova.com>

Why not use the definition of the tac utility that used to be
distributed with BSD Unix?  I think it printed out lines in reverse
order (similar to tail -r).  Something to print out all the bytes in a
file in reverse order might be useful, though.  Currently, I can't
think why.

	- Dan C.



  reply	other threads:[~2003-07-23 18:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-21 11:45 pac
2003-07-21 11:52 ` boyd, rounin
2003-07-22 14:09   ` rog
2003-07-22 14:35     ` boyd, rounin
2003-07-22 16:43       ` rog
2003-07-22 23:28     ` Geoff Collyer
2003-07-23 15:05       ` rog
2003-07-23 18:42         ` Dan Cross [this message]
2003-07-24  9:19           ` matt
2003-07-28  8:47       ` Ralph Corderoy
2003-07-28 21:58         ` Geoff Collyer
2003-07-30  8:25           ` Ralph Corderoy

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