pussyfooting

[jack at boring.UUCP]

Well, this discussion gives me a chance to give one of
my favorite flames about unix utilities :

WHY DID THEY TAKE THE '-n' OPTION OUT OF PR AT THE V6->V7
TRANSITION??????

In 99.9% of the cases, If I want line numbers, I am making
a listing. pr -n ... ^ lpr is great, so.
Nowadays, I have to do "num foo.c ^ pr -n -h foo.c ^ lpr", or
something ridiculous like that.

Putting a -n option on cat is stupid, but it isn't neraly
as stupid as taking it out of pr, where it belongs.
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	Jack Jansen, {decvax|philabs|seismo}!mcvax!jack
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