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Date:      Wed, 16 Jun 2004 15:00:39 GMT
From:      Kim Scarborough <sluggo@unknown.nu>
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: gnu/67987: grep needs to be updated
Message-ID:  <200406161500.i5GF0dH9044522@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR gnu/67987; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Kim Scarborough <sluggo@unknown.nu>
To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>
Cc: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: gnu/67987: grep needs to be updated
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 09:52:44 -0500

 > What do you need from 2.5.1, speficially?  And by the way,
 > 2.5.1 source distribution is not downloadable at the moment,
 > and it's in this state for about a year already (I believe
 > since the ftp.gnu.org was root compromised).  At least it
 > was not downloadable a few months ago when I last checked.
 > It also looks like a dead project, but I may be mistaken:
 > 
 > http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/grep/grep/src/
 
 Ah. Well, I'd like the color highlighting functionality, which looks like 
 it was introduced in February 2001, so it'd be in 2.5 as well.
 
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