Date: Mon, 11 Sep 1995 06:57:33 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: whereis Message-ID: <199509111357.GAA01403@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <199509111038.MAA24151@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Sep 11, 95 12:38:57 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. ``Cease all use of and distribution of Net/2 code''. Your ``useing'' it because your reading it to figure out what they did. You would cause walnut creek to ``distribute'' it if you put it in :-(. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD
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