Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 22:00:11 +0000 From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <jruigrok@via-net-works.nl>, Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/tail forward.c read.c reverse.c tail Message-ID: <20001204220011.A1618@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <200012042013.NAA63405@harmony.village.org>; from imp@village.org on Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 01:13:36PM -0700 References: <20001204210848.B64100@lucifer.bart.nl> <200012031705.eB3H5ke30393@freefall.freebsd.org> <XFMail.001204105855.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20001204202406.A64100@lucifer.bart.nl> <200012041942.eB4Jgrp75009@earth.backplane.com> <20001204210848.B64100@lucifer.bart.nl> <200012042013.NAA63405@harmony.village.org>
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On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 01:13:36PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
> In message <20001204210848.B64100@lucifer.bart.nl> Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven writes:
> : What I tried to communicate in my last message to John was the fact that
> : I am actively working on the userland, synching it with NetBSD and
> : OpenBSD and bringing the source code more up to par with modern day
> : standards and tools.
>
> I would like to lend my voice of support for this action. We have too
> many programs that have needlessly drifted since the mid 1990's when
> 4.xBSD BSD split into {Free,Net,Open}BSD[*]. Why do we need to have
> different versions of cat?
Ditto. Not just different versions of cat.c, but also different
versions of cat.1, not to mention duplicated translation efforts across
the BSDs.
N
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