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Date:      Tue, 21 May 1996 15:29:38 -0400
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Gary Kline <kline@tera.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Utilities and POSIX compliance....
Message-ID:  <9605211929.AA01217@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199605211857.LAA20510@athena.tera.com>
References:  <199605211857.LAA20510@athena.tera.com>

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<<On Tue, 21 May 1996 11:57:40 -0700 (PDT), Gary Kline <kline@tera.com> said:

>     Can any of the BSD gurus point me at the person or persons 
>     who are working on the utilities?  Since there are around 
>     300 utilities, I'm guessing that there are several people
>     involved.

You're guessing wrong.

>     I'd like to know why more of the Berkeley utilities aren't
>     POSIX-compliant.

Because there isn't anybody who (1) is competent to update them, (2)
cares, and (3) has sufficient free time to do so.

-GAWollman

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