ok@quintus.uucp (Richard A. O'Keefe) (11/26/88)
In article <8973@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes: >On reading the Ninth Edition UNIX manual some time ago, I was pleased >to see that some of the worst quirks in the basic utilities had been >cleaned up. For example, "cat" worked right without a -u option, >unlike the System V version. I didn't remember what the "-u" option did, so I looked in the SVID. Not there! Logged in to a V.2 system. I find there cat [ -u ] [ -s ] [ -v [-t] [-e] ] file... On a V.3 System, there were no on-line man pages (hiss, spit), but usage: cat -usvte [-|file] Does anyone know why the SVID only lists the "-s" option?