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From: jack@boring.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: pussyfooting
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Date: Fri, 1-Mar-85 08:31:36 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar  1 08:31:36 1985
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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
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