Less surprised

[Tony Arnold]

On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 09:02 -0700, Gary W. Swearingen wrote:
> "Christofer C. Bell" <christofer.c.bell at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > (in fact, the name 'cat'
> > comes from 'concantenate').
> 
> I'll guess it was named by someone who knew "catenate".

I believe so! As far as I recall, cat has been a Unix command ever since
the very first Unix implementation came out of Berkeley. I always
thought it was one of the less intuitive commands of Unix. I spent 3
days once trying to figure out how to list a file on the terminal when I
first started using Unix!

Is there a nostalgia list?

Regards,
Tony.
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