Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 22:44:05 +0200 From: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: Michael Carr <sphaleotas@blueyonder.co.uk> Subject: Re: RMS says: "Use BSD, for goodness sake!" Message-ID: <xzpof0k7ene.fsf@dwp.des.no> In-Reply-To: <20030626172910.N98477@hub.org> (Marc G. Fournier's message of "Thu, 26 Jun 2003 17:32:37 -0300 (ADT)") References: <4.3.2.7.2.20030625214311.00e5e240@localhost> <20030626010357.J508@hub.org> <20030626110336.GW34365@iconoplex.co.uk> <xzp1xxg8u2v.fsf@dwp.des.no> <20030626172910.N98477@hub.org>
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"Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> writes: > Is there anything at the operating system level that uses/requires bc, or > could it be moved to ports ... ? Like, I use it, but its a command line > tool, not something I've seen used in scripts ... We care about POSIX. > > > groff - look at alternate doc formatting? > > Not bloody likely, unless you volunteer to convert all the man pages > > (including translations). > What was used before groff? there was an nroff and troff before groff, > no? or is it just that there are alot of 'groff-isms' that we're using in > the man pages? Did we ever use anything else than groff?=20=20 > > > less - re-implementable quite quickly > > You might be surprised... > ... but any reason why its part of hte main system instead of just put > into ports? POSIX requires more(1) (which in FreeBSD is a hard link to less(1)), and it's not under GPL anyway (see /usr/src/contrib/less/LICENSE) > > > man - could be re-implemented based on file format information known > > This is a SMOP. > SMOP? *raised eyebrow* Small Matter Of Programming (though there are some locale issues) DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no
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