[Cryptography] Simpler programs?

Dave Horsfall dave at horsfall.org
Sat Apr 19 03:46:27 EDT 2014


On Fri, 18 Apr 2014, Bill Stewart wrote:

> Obviously anybody who thinks that real cats don't have options has never 
> owned a cat.

You don't own a cat; the cat owns *you*, and they know this.  We really 
need to get this security paradigm right, if we are to survive as a 
species.  It's only their lack of opposable thumbs is what stops them.

> More seriously, though, "cat -u" is sometimes important, because 
> sometimes you really do need unbuffered output, especially if the file 
> or files are devices or other special files.

My most useful pussy-cat option is "-v"; much better than "od" or "hd".

-- Dave


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