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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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