SPUG: Re: cat on Windows?
Richard Seymour UW-NPL
SEYMOUR at npl.npl.washington.edu
Mon Oct 22 14:46:18 CDT 2001
A variety of people have responded to:
>>>> Also, is there a 'cat' on windows?
with something siomilar to:
> Only possible via Unix add-on's I believe.
Let's try the logical inversion: (i.e. asking it from a Windows perspective)
> Is there a "TYPE" on **ix?
Yes, but it doesn't do what you'd expect
(you may take my previous parenthetical statement in any context
you'd prefer)(i'm somewhat OS neutral)
We could generalize to:
Is there a convenient way of displaying a text file on the user's
screen in all operating systems, if we restrict ourselves to
trying to use a "user/shell-level command"?
At which point the answer fuzzes to "Yes, but some use common English
colloquialisms, whereas others use the names of semi-domesticated animals
(and may have strange likings for books with woodcuts of animals thereon)."
..and both can reach into historical perspective to defend their nomenclature
(one involving Victorian-era manipulation of metallic objects, the other
based upon the contraction of a long word since the metallic-manipulator
available at the time of formation of the lexicon was difficult to use,
plus concatenate was boring to type (whoops) repetitively)
have fun
---dick
(there's no native "cat" under OpenVMS, either, nor pre-OSX Macs)
(save under ancient Apple AUX in the late '80s)
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