From owner-freebsd-current Mon Sep 11 06:57:40 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id GAA21399 for current-outgoing; Mon, 11 Sep 1995 06:57:40 -0700 Received: from GndRsh.aac.dev.com (GndRsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id GAA21386 for ; Mon, 11 Sep 1995 06:57:38 -0700 Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by GndRsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id GAA01403 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 11 Sep 1995 06:57:33 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199509111357.GAA01403@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: whereis To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Mon, 11 Sep 1995 06:57:33 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <199509111038.MAA24151@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Sep 11, 95 12:38:57 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1046 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. ``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