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proc.5: Remove bogus suggestion to use cat(1) to read files containing '\0' 

Reported-by: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@jwilk.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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@ -523,6 +523,7 @@ Thus, to print out the environment of process 1, you would do:
.EE
.in
.IP
.IP
If, after an
.BR execve (2),
the process modifies its environment
@ -6494,7 +6495,6 @@ the internal format, with subfields terminated by null bytes (\(aq\\0\(aq),
so you
may find that things are more readable if you use \fIod \-c\fP or \fItr
"\\000" "\\n"\fP to read them.
Alternatively, \fIecho \`cat <file>\`\fP works well.
.PP
This manual page is incomplete, possibly inaccurate, and is the kind
of thing that needs to be updated very often.