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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: UNIX NAME ABBREVIATIONS
Message-ID: <6746@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 26-Nov-87 03:04:25 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 26 03:04:25 1987
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In article <3074@vdsvax.steinmetz.UUCP> barnett@steinmetz.UUCP (Bruce G Barnett) writes:
>I thought cat was short for
>	Concatenate All Text
>But perhaps this is another 'revisionist' attempt to clarify the jargon?

Must be; "cat" has nothing to do with text.
Files of any type can be catenated with "cat".