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From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
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On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 07:14:04PM -0400, Steven Kreuzer wrote:
> I achieve 100% compatability with the GNU version, I need to add
> -v/--version and the issue I ran into is that since this program would
> become part of the base os, what exactly should be displayed.

I see no reason you need to be 100% compatabile with respect to
-v/--version.  Just about every GNU util has a --version output, but few
(none?) BSD utils do.

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-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)