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Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 19:03:44 -0700
From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co>
Organization: Universidad Nacional de Colombia
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Subject: GNU utilities are old.
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Hello,
I use 2.2.1-Release, but I think this problem also affects current.
After noticing our version of GNU tar is old, I looked at other tools
and found the following distributions in our tree are (sometimes very)
old:
binutils-2.8
bc-1.04
cpio-2.4.2
cvs-1.9
gawk-3.0.2
patch-2.2
ptx-0.4
texinfo-3.9
I think ed and flex are also outdated. It would be good to do some
maintainance on this.

	--Pedro.