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Date:      Mon, 11 Sep 1995 12:38:57 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: whereis
Message-ID:  <199509111038.MAA24151@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199509110650.XAA11860@io.cts.com> from "Morgan Davis" at Sep 10, 95 11:50:46 pm

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As Morgan Davis wrote:
> 
> > "whereis" has been crippled beyond recognition in 4.4BSD.  It has to
> > be rewritten, the current functionality is absolutely useless.  Either
> > Wolfram Schneider (but with low priority for this) or me will revamp
> > it probably in Perl.
> 
> Yup.  You're talking about the original whereis, the one that can find
> man pages, too, right?

...and the source.  I've got a prototype in Perl for review to
Wolfram Schneider (hacked after the old man page).  Stay tuned...

Btw. (Rod?), would copying parts of a 1.1.5.1 manual page into the
current one violate the license agreement?  I don't see much sense in
rewording it.

-- 
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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