Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: cat -u
Message-ID: <1988Nov29.194110.25118@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <175@ernie.NECAM.COM> <189@wyn386.UUCP> <8910@smoke.BRL.MIL> <118@hudson.Morgan.COM> <8941@smoke.BRL.MIL> <480@auspex.UUCP> <8956@smoke.BRL.MIL> <730@quintus.UUCP> <8973@smoke.BRL.MIL> <748@quintus.UUCP> <8985@smoke.BRL.MIL> <4864@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 88 19:41:10 GMT

In article <4864@bsu-cs.UUCP> dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
>     /bin/cat -uv "$file" | /usr/ucb/more -10d
>
>I couldn't get it to work right without the -u option.

This is a bug (albeit a long-standing and widespread one) in your cat.
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