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* [TUHS] re: Mention TUHS in Linux Magazine (US)?
@ 2005-04-29  3:55 dmr
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From: dmr @ 2005-04-29  3:55 UTC (permalink / raw)


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



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