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Date:      Sun, 22 Jun 1997 19:43:30 -0700
From:      Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
To:        Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: use of readline() 
Message-ID:  <199706230243.TAA11566@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>

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On Mon, 23 Jun 1997 12:05:40 +0930 (CST) 
 Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> wrote:

 > We also have libedit, however it's significantly more intrusive in terms
 > of usage.  If readline() was riotously unpopular, this would possibly
 > be a workable alternative.
 > 
 > Does anyone actually use libedit for anything?

We've made use of libedit in NetBSD because it's not GPL'd... and, the
author of libedit is a NetBSD Core member :-)

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