Which distro's version of "text utils" ? hehe ..
Let's not start an anti-linux flame war now ... 

On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 1:31 AM, Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX) <lyndon@orthanc.ca> wrote:
> I don't see any meaning in Linux "adopting" some set of plan 9
> commands...

Have you read the source code for their cat(1) ???