On 17 January 2011 18:01, Tim Allen <t...@ls83.eclipse.co.uk> wrote: > On 17/01/11 17:22, Terry Coles wrote:
>> >> I never even knew that catenate was a word ;-) >> > > It means the same as concatenate :) > > Tim > Moi non plus. I had always assumed that 'cat' was a perverted short-form of 'concatenate' and that calling it that was just 'humour' or laziness on the part of the early Unix designers. (BTW, regarding the use of cat on non-text files ... fastest way to clone a disk: cat /dev/hda2 > /dev/hdb2 ) -- best regards, Victor Churchill, Bournemouth -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2011-02-01 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
