From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 25 07:34:34 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F11A1065697 for ; Thu, 25 Sep 2008 07:34:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Received: from weak.local (freefall.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90DD88FC13; Thu, 25 Sep 2008 07:34:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: <48DB3F1A.5060005@FreeBSD.org> Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 08:34:50 +0100 From: Kris Kennaway User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Macintosh/20080707) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: unga888@yahoo.com References: <935484.39759.qm@web57008.mail.re3.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <935484.39759.qm@web57008.mail.re3.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why not GNU cmp? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 07:34:34 -0000 Unga wrote: > In my past experience, the GNU ncurses and Flex (http://flex.sourceforge.net/) are simple not compatible with FreeBSD even though Flex is licensed under BSD. I wanted to know whether the GNU cmp is also the same fate other than the license because all these GNU tools comes in one package, Diffutils. Both simply are compatible with FreeBSD. > I was wondering why FreeBSD wrote their own version of cmp. If it just the license, then that's fine. I prefer the BSD versions of diff, etc. when available. You are asking the wrong questions: why did GNU write their own version of cmp? FreeBSD's dates to 1987. Kris