From owner-freebsd-current Mon Sep 11 04:23:22 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id EAA19126 for current-outgoing; Mon, 11 Sep 1995 04:23:22 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id EAA19089 for ; Mon, 11 Sep 1995 04:22:00 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id NAA19965 for ; Mon, 11 Sep 1995 13:20:56 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id NAA26957 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 11 Sep 1995 13:20:55 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id MAA24151 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 11 Sep 1995 12:38:57 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199509111038.MAA24151@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: whereis To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Mon, 11 Sep 1995 12:38:57 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199509110650.XAA11860@io.cts.com> from "Morgan Davis" at Sep 10, 95 11:50:46 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 799 Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)