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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:49:03 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Awakening the Dormant and Printing with the Illiterate
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On Tue Aug 18 00:42:24 EDT 2009, mirtchovski@gmail.com wrote:
> make sure you teach cat(1) the -v flag. that should make some people
> very happy and will widely be regarded as a good move ;)

i believe the point here is that the first paper i read on plan 9
	"Plan 9 from Bell Labs", /sys/doc/9.ps
points out that dropping the old tools is part of the point!
	Providing a more efficent way to run the old UNIX
	warhorses is empty engineering...

i'm all for history.  but there are plenty of old timey unix projects.

- erik