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Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 17:57:51 -0700 (PDT)
From: Tom Samplonius <tom@uniserve.com>
To: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co>
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Subject: Re: GNU utilities are old.
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On Mon, 12 May 1997, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote:

> Hello,
> I use 2.2.1-Release, but I think this problem also affects current.
> After noticing our version of GNU tar is old, I looked at other tools
> and found the following distributions in our tree are (sometimes very)
> old:
> binutils-2.8
> bc-1.04
> cpio-2.4.2
> cvs-1.9
> gawk-3.0.2
> patch-2.2
> ptx-0.4
> texinfo-3.9
> I think ed and flex are also outdated. It would be good to do some
> maintainance on this.
> 
> 	--Pedro.
> 

  Many of these items have FreeBSD patches applied.  They are not pure
GNU.  I belive that the binutils have been heavily modified.

Tom