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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