-------- Sam Leffler wrote: > Garance A Drosehn wrote: > > > I intend to commit this within a few days, unless there are major > > objections to it. I am posting this HEADSUP under a new subject, > > so people can dump all kinds of paint over me before I commit it. > > I have ignored all the subsequent postings about modifying date to add > completely new functionality that is utterly unrelated to it's purpose > in life. From the looks of this posting it appears you've chosen cat as > the new victim for this functionality. This again is wrong; cat is a > filter that concatenates streams of data and does not modify their contents. > > I think committing any changes of the sort are wrong-headed and totally > contrary to the way UNIX was designed. If you want a program that acts > as a filter and adds a timestamp to each line of input it receives > create a new one. I even have a name for this program: stamp. > > Sam Agreed. More crud in cat would be bad. Too much already (line numbering). I've known Cat since V6, it's supposed to be light & small Fancy stuff better elsewhere, eg `pr' PS This probably won't make it to list, as I'm fixing my SASL auth, & my masquerade will prob. fail & not match sub'd address. -- Julian Stacey. BSD Unix C Net Consultancy, Munich/Muenchen http://berklix.com Mail Ascii, not HTML. Ihr Rauch = mein allergischer Kopfschmerz. ~Received on Tue Sep 05 2006 - 14:08:08 UTC
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