Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC840302); site boring.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!mcvax!boring!jack From: jack@boring.UUCP Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: pussyfooting Message-ID: <6340@boring.UUCP> Date: Fri, 1-Mar-85 08:31:36 EST Article-I.D.: boring.6340 Posted: Fri Mar 1 08:31:36 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 4-Mar-85 07:15:30 EST References: <8608@brl-tgr.ARPA> <520@rlgvax.UUCP> Reply-To: jack@boring.UUCP (Jack Jansen) Organization: CWI, Amsterdam Lines: 17 Summary: Apparently-To: rnews@mcvax.LOCAL 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. -- Jack Jansen, {decvax|philabs|seismo}!mcvax!jack Notice new, improved, faster address ^^^^^