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Date:      Sat, 31 Dec 1994 08:59:40 -0800
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        dgy@seagull.rtd.com, freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: sed bugs 
Message-ID:  <26651.788893180@time.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 01 Jan 95 02:53:30 %2B1100." <199412311553.CAA00522@godzilla.zeta.org.au> 

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> Most basic gnu utilities are clearly superior.  I miss having a cp that
> preserves symlinks, a mv that works across file systems in all cases,
> a `locate' that supports multiple databases, ...

Well, then by all means campaign for them and try to get them adopted!

> The basic gnu utilities have some problems under 2.0.  They don't
> support new features such as file system flags and POSIXish symlinks.

Assuming that this is dealt with somehow.. :-)

					Jordan



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