In article <4864 at bsu-cs.UUCP> dhesi at bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes: >Well, now, it might be cruft, but -u is *useful* cruft. ... >I couldn't get it to work right without the -u option. The -u option is "useful" only when the implementation of "cat" is broken to start with. A good implementation benefits not at all from the -u option.