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Date:      Tue, 29 Jun 1999 23:56:29 -0700
From:      Chris Piazza <cpiazza@home.net>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au>
Cc:        cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports LEGAL
Message-ID:  <19990629235629.A36035@norn.ca.eu.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.10.9906301617120.4678-100000@bragg>; from Kris Kennaway on Wed, Jun 30, 1999 at 04:18:55PM %2B0930
References:  <19990629233355.I565@norn.ca.eu.org> <Pine.OSF.4.10.9906301617120.4678-100000@bragg>

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On Wed, Jun 30, 1999 at 04:18:55PM +0930, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Chris Piazza wrote:
> 
> > Good point :-).  According to the person who wrote this it came out of
> > a conversation on -newbies.  As for the license I've never seen anything
> > much like it.
> 
> Joking aside, does this port really do anything other than spit newlines to
> the terminal? If so, I'm not sure it warrants being an entire port.

I see your point, as that is all it does, but it's along the same 
lines as having a unix2dos port when the FAQ clearly has a few
examples using regular expressions and tr to do the same thing.
Admittedly it's not quite the same, and I can remove it if it's
deemed unworthy.

-Chris

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