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Date:      Fri, 26 Oct 2001 21:17:10 +0100
From:      Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cu(1) (Was: Re: cvs commit: src/etc/mtree BSD.var.dist) 
Message-ID:  <200110262017.f9QKHAY49713@grimreaper.grondar.org>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.011026115034.jhb@FreeBSD.org> ; from John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>  "Fri, 26 Oct 2001 11:50:34 PDT."
References:  <XFMail.011026115034.jhb@FreeBSD.org> 

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> > Aaaaah! The thot plickens :-)
> > 
> > Do you have a problem with cu being a port and not in the base system?
> > 
> > (ie, a port that gives you _just_ cu with no other UUCP crap?)
> 
> Well, the laziness would imply I'd rather it be there to start with. :)  I
> usually use this for quick serial consoles.  If you changed tip to accept
> arbitrary parameters in this manner, that would work, but why not just leave
> 'cu'?  I never use tip myself, so I'd vote to axe tip if we had to get rid of
> one. :)

Yeah - no religion, and I'm not sharpening axes yet, but it seems like a
helluva waste of space to have all that libuucp crud just so we can keep
li'l ole cu(1).

I guess my next step is to look at OpenBSD's tip/cu merge.

M
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