alt Hacker NewsSame! Closely followed by 'cat' lol. 'type' just doesn't register in my brain
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red_admiral • today at 8:11 AM
Back before "type" we had "copy FILE CON".
Same! Closely followed by 'cat' lol. 'type' just doesn't register in my brain
Back before "type" we had "copy FILE CON".
VMS also uses type to dump a file to stdout.
I understand that DEC TOPS 20 influenced CP/M and MS-DOS, so that could be the source for type.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOPS-20
Edit: type has its own wiki, and TOPS-20 implemented it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TYPE_(DOS_command)