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In article <1993Jan11.190644.29108@fcom.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes:
> The big problem, as Ohta pointed out, is the "cat" problem.

No, the big problem is the "editor" problem. "cat" has no business doing
anything but concatenating files. Why would you expect different character
set monolingual files to change format when you "cat" them? I certainly
wouldn't, any more than I'd expect "cat" to decompress compressed files,
convert a "tar" archice to a "cpio" archive when you cat one onto the other,
and generate a nicely formatted directory listing when you "cat" a directory.
These all make as much sense as your proposal.
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