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From: cudcv@daisy.warwick.UUCP (Rob McMahon)
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Subject: Re: unix file system
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Date: Wed, 7-Aug-85 06:25:12 EDT
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>> basic problem with the  UNIX file  system  for FORTRAN.
>
>You must also rewrite "cat," because I can copy a file by saying cat a >b .

It's worse than that - the shell creates `b', and it's got no idea what
sort of file to create, maybe the shell should be changed to include a syntax
like `>[ASCII,RECORDSIZE=80,ANSICC]b' !