From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dmr@plan9.bell-labs.com (dmr@plan9.bell-labs.com) Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 23:55:39 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] re: Mention TUHS in Linux Magazine (US)? Message-ID: Jerry Peek wrote: > I'm writing a series of columns on "What's GNU in Old Utilities". > It describes new features of GNU utilities like cat(1) and > contrasts them to "how we used to do it." The most famous rant on this topic (actually BSD, not GNU) was by Rob Pike, "UNIX Style: cat -v considered harmful" I couldn't find the thing itself (it's from a Usenix conference in 1983) but there's a .ps version of a contemporary paper with most of the content under http://gaul.org/files/cat_-v_considered_harmful.html Dennis