diff --git a/extra/tools/cat/authors.txt b/extra/tools/cat/authors.txt
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+John Benediktsson
diff --git a/extra/tools/cat/cat.factor b/extra/tools/cat/cat.factor
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+! Copyright (C) 2010 John Benediktsson
+! See http://factorcode.org/license.txt for BSD license
+
+USING: command-line formatting kernel io io.encodings.binary
+io.files namespaces sequences strings ;
+
+IN: tools.cat
+
+: cat-lines ( -- )
+    [ print flush ] each-line ;
+
+: cat-stream ( -- )
+    [ >string write flush ] each-block ;
+
+: cat-file ( path -- )
+    dup exists? [
+        binary [ cat-stream ] with-file-reader
+    ] [ "%s: not found\n" printf flush ] if ;
+
+: cat-files ( paths -- )
+    [ dup "-" = [ drop cat-lines ] [ cat-file ] if ] each ;
+
+: run-cat ( -- )
+    command-line get [ cat-lines ] [ cat-files ] if-empty ;
+
+MAIN: run-cat
+
diff --git a/extra/tools/cat/deploy.factor b/extra/tools/cat/deploy.factor
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+USING: tools.deploy.config ;
+H{
+    { deploy-c-types? f }
+    { deploy-help? f }
+    { deploy-name "cat" }
+    { "stop-after-last-window?" t }
+    { deploy-unicode? f }
+    { deploy-console? t }
+    { deploy-io 3 }
+    { deploy-reflection 1 }
+    { deploy-ui? f }
+    { deploy-word-defs? f }
+    { deploy-threads? t }
+    { deploy-math? t }
+    { deploy-word-props? f }
+}