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[Rahul Dhesi]

In article <859 at thor.stolaf.edu> mike at wheaties.ai.mit.edu writes:
     ...making nonprinting characters visible has nothing whatever to
     do with concatenating files.

But the opposite is quite true.  A program that makes nonprinting
characters printable should accept multiple filenames.

It's then a trivial step to optionally let it pass through all data
unchanged.
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