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Date:      Fri, 12 Nov 1999 20:09:24 -0500 (EST)
From:      Alain Magloire <alainm@rcsm.ece.mcgill.ca>
To:        obrien@nuxi.com
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, bug-gnu-utils@gnu.org
Subject:   Re: Bad 'grep' behaviour in -CURRENT, faulty binary detection?
Message-ID:  <199911130109.UAA16471@mccoy2.ECE.McGill.CA>
In-Reply-To: <19991112161931.A90421@dragon.nuxi.com> from "David O'Brien" at Nov 12, 99 04:19:32 pm

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Bonjour M. David O'Brien

> On Fri, Nov 12, 1999 at 03:39:43PM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote:
> >    Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 09:08:24 -0800
> >    From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
> > 
> >    I want a silent ignore of binary files.
> > 
> > It'd be reasonable to add an option to do this, after the feature
> > freeze is over and 2.4 comes out.
> 
> Cool! :-)  Would you able to reserve the option's letter and GNU-style
> long name now?  I'd like to add this feature to GNU Grep 2.3 in FreeBSD.
> 

-a, --text
is already taken.

Option letter is something rather scarce for GNU grep, but I think
there's some left ;-)

> Is there an alpha of 2.4 available anywhere?  I wouldn't mind adding the
> environmental vars support to our 2.3 also.
> 

  grep-2.3h beta released (Freeze).

wget ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/grep/grep-2.3h.tar.gz
wget ftp://mccoy.ee.mcgill.ca/pub/alain/grep/beta/2.3/grep-2.3h.tar.gz


-- 
au revoir, alain
----
Aussi haut que l'on soit assis, on est toujours assis que sur son cul !!!


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