From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 25 08:56:15 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 7D8BE1065686 for ; Thu, 25 Sep 2008 08:56:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: from outbound-mail-39.bluehost.com (outbound-mail-39.bluehost.com [69.89.20.193]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4C1FF8FC1E for ; Thu, 25 Sep 2008 08:56:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: (qmail 15799 invoked by uid 0); 25 Sep 2008 08:56:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box183.bluehost.com) (69.89.25.183) by outboundproxy2.bluehost.com with SMTP; 25 Sep 2008 08:56:13 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=apotheon.com; h=Received:Received:Date:From:To:Subject:Message-ID:Mail-Followup-To:References:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To:User-Agent:X-Identified-User; b=dYsbExtH0moE3BO+OTAf7E1i7535DxO4xE6h8MsjXcyJoGArr8cEiqj83By23369BDeuy2AwgDvXtU6TqeFSXkmF7edGNZrKYoQ4auhXmwuq7AT9xZm+YCcWFBGt38Lp; Received: from c-24-8-180-234.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.8.180.234] helo=kokopelli.hydra) by box183.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Kimdx-0001RL-JB for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 25 Sep 2008 02:56:13 -0600 Received: by kokopelli.hydra (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 25 Sep 2008 02:48:25 -0600 Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 02:48:25 -0600 From: Chad Perrin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20080925084825.GA2728@kokopelli.hydra> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <935484.39759.qm@web57008.mail.re3.yahoo.com> <48DB3F1A.5060005@FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="J2SCkAp4GZ/dPZZf" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <48DB3F1A.5060005@FreeBSD.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Identified-User: {737:box183.bluehost.com:apotheon:apotheon.org} {sentby:smtp auth 24.8.180.234 authed with ren@apotheon.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 08:56:15 -0000 --J2SCkAp4GZ/dPZZf Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 08:34:50AM +0100, Kris Kennaway wrote: > Unga wrote: >=20 > >I was wondering why FreeBSD wrote their own version of cmp. If it just t= he=20 > >license, then that's fine. I prefer the BSD versions of diff, etc. when= =20 > >available.=20 >=20 > You are asking the wrong questions: why did GNU write their own version= =20 > of cmp? FreeBSD's dates to 1987. Y'know -- that's a really good question. --=20 Chad Perrin [ content licensed PDL: http://pdl.apotheon.org ] Paul Graham: "SUVs are gross because they're the solution to a gross problem. (How to make minivans look more masculine.)" --J2SCkAp4GZ/dPZZf Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkjbUFkACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKUsoQCgnTe9TfBtFZOWLBC7oHIUrcVF 3bcAnAhZ4DMGKybckw0CNgPFvPaZriuj =aqSb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --J2SCkAp4GZ/dPZZf--