What is the difference between cat and vim command to file system?

[Stephen Samuel (gmail)]

an example test case might be useful.
I'm not clear what you're trying to do, or what the problem is.

On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 10:40 PM, Sucan Zhang <bitzsk at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> why use cat command to edit a file , the blocks of the file will not
> change.
>
> but use vim command to edit a file, the blocks of the file will change?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> --
> Regards,
> Sucan
>
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