From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 8 13:41:31 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC3A116A4BF for ; Wed, 8 Oct 2003 13:41:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-64-169-107-253.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.169.107.253]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0793F43F85 for ; Wed, 8 Oct 2003 13:41:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from rot13.obsecurity.org (rot13.obsecurity.org [10.0.0.5]) by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E41966E05; Wed, 8 Oct 2003 13:41:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: by rot13.obsecurity.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 418326DD; Wed, 8 Oct 2003 13:41:11 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 13:41:10 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: "Pedro F. Giffuni" Message-ID: <20031008204110.GA50936@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <20031008202740.95612.qmail@web13402.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="uAKRQypu60I7Lcqm" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031008202740.95612.qmail@web13402.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: fsplit: BSD sources missing in the tree ?? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2003 20:41:31 -0000 --uAKRQypu60I7Lcqm Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 01:27:40PM -0700, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: > Hi; >=20 > I was trying to port Robot, a plotting utility for XView, and I need a ut= ility > called fsplit. We have csplit and split in the base system but fsplit is = not > even in ports. I was surprised when I found it on Linux referenced as a B= SD > utility: > http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/falsehope/home/pierre/fsplit/fsplit-5.5-1.i3= 86.html >=20 > in particular, it's, here: > http://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/computing/systems/unix/bsd-sources/usr.bin/fs= plit >=20 > Is there a good reason for this not being in the base system? perhaps it = was > replaced? If it doesn't belong in the base system, someone please port it > (we'll have to upload it to MASTER_SITE_LOCAL). Use the CVS history (e.g. via cvsweb) to discover why it was removed from FreeBSD. Kris --uAKRQypu60I7Lcqm Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/hHZmWry0BWjoQKURApAbAJ9bA87JkkfargLoCSShalzVfkPq8ACfUvW6 yCubrqRTXjZzGDDmGUfRNkA= =3RNm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --uAKRQypu60I7Lcqm--