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[sasguru]

cat

[from `catenate' via Unix `cat(1)'] vt. 1. [techspeak]
To spew an entire file to the screen or some other output sink
without pause. 2. By extension, to dump large amounts of data at an
unprepared target or with no intention of browsing it carefully.
Usage: considered silly. Rare outside Unix sites. See also dd,
BLT.

Among Unix fans, `cat(1)' is considered an excellent example of
user-interface design, because it delivers the file contents without
such verbosity as spacing or headers between the files, and because
it does not require the files to consist of lines of text, but works
with any sort of data.

Among Unix haters, `cat(1)' is considered the canonical example
of _bad_ user-interface design, because of its woefully unobvious
name. It is far more often used to blast a file to standard
output than to concatenate two files. The name `cat' for the former
operation is just as unintuitive as, say, LISP's cdr.

[EternalOptimist]

cat - a cat

[Andyw]

Hopeless !

[sasguru]

Catamaran - the only water-loving cat?

[Pondlife]

Catalyst - the effect of putting the cat amongst the pigeons

[Fleetwood]

Catacylism - A female feline clitoral orgasm.

[Pondlife]

Category - classification of a cat

[Pondlife]

Catalogue - A long list of cats.

[DaveB]

Catastrophe - Form of punctuation used when writing about cats.

[Flubster]

Catatonia - screeching 'noise' that sounds like cats, but some regards as music.

[sasguru]

Catalan - definitely not a Spanish cat.

[CaribbeanPirate]

Cathartic – When cats make you tulip yourself.

[EternalOptimist]

Concatenation : the process of glueing one cat's nose to another cat's tail.

Catatonic : The fact that some of us are cat lovers and get a filip from their pets

[threaded]

And I ain't in it for the power
And I ain't in it for my health
I ain't in it for the glory of anything at all
And I sure as hell ain't in it for the wealth

[Francko]

Concatenation : the process of glueing one cat's nose to another cat's tail.

Mind the cats. They can be punching sometimes.