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On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 03:00:16PM -0400, Nemo Nusquam wrote:
> On 09/19/19 14:50, Norman Wilson wrote (in part):
> >So it's true that BSD added needless (in my humble but correct
> >opinion) options, but not that it had none before they touched it.
> >Unless all those other programs were stuffed into cat in an earlier
> >Berkeley system, but I don't think they were.
> 
> Who said "Cat came back from Berkeley waving flags."?

Rob Pike