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Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 10:19:53 +0100
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Dan Cross wrote:

>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.
>

to see what interesting UTF-8 comes out of course