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Date:      Tue, 29 Aug 1995 08:41:24 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: postmaster@yggdrasil.com: Yggdrasil Product Information
Message-ID:  <199508290641.IAA17364@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <18348.809651864@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Aug 28, 95 04:17:44 pm

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As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> 
> > Basically what our old `whereis' command did.  I don't like the extra
> > blubber above (e.g. running file(1) on the executable), but i really
> > loved to have a command that was pointing at the location of the
> > source and man page as well as the binary.  Are there any reasons to
> > stick with the crippled 4.4 version?
> 
> Not that I can see.  I'd be happy to see a more featureful version!

Are there any legal problems with re-importing the Net2 code here?  As
far as i can see, this program originated at Berkeley:

WHEREIS(1)                 FreeBSD Reference Manual                 WHEREIS(1)

NAME
     whereis - locate binary, manual, and or source for program

SYNOPSIS
     whereis [-bms] [-u] [-BMS dir ... -f] name ...
...
HISTORY
     The whereis command appeared in 3.0BSD.

3rd Berkeley Distribution       August 29, 1995                              1

/*-
 * Copyright (c) 1980 The Regents of the University of California.
                 (:-)
 * All rights reserved.
 *


In case of doubt, perhaps Wolfram would volunteer to re-hack it in
Perl?

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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