From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Oct 15 07:10:15 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id HAA16985 for stable-outgoing; Wed, 15 Oct 1997 07:10:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable) Received: from daria.cdnow.com (daria.cdnow.com [209.83.166.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id HAA16973 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 1997 07:10:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from heller@daria.cdnow.com) Received: (from heller@localhost) by daria.cdnow.com (8.7.5/8.6.7) id KAA22288; Wed, 15 Oct 1997 10:08:48 -0400 (EDT) From: "A. Karl Heller" Message-Id: <199710151408.KAA22288@daria.cdnow.com> Subject: Re: Testing result, 225Beta, oct 7th. To: matt@zigg.com (Matt Behrens) Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 10:08:47 -0400 (EDT) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, bwithrow@BayNetworks.COM, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, bwithrow@tuva.engeast.BayNetworks.COM Reply-To: heller@cdnow.com In-Reply-To: from "Matt Behrens" at Oct 15, 97 06:55:32 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > On Tue, 14 Oct 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > 6) It seems like there should be a symlink "gawk" for "awk" since they are > > > one in the same. There is room for difference of opinion here, of course;-) > > Why would anyone want to call it "gawk?" :-) > To keep computers a male hobby? ;) Well, I asume it is because it is GNU's version of awk. Any time I install a GNU util on a system I will always place a "g" in front of the name. Of course, some people ask me what the heck "ggrep" is... -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- A. Karl Heller | Midnight, on the water, I saw the ocean's daughter, Senior Systems Engineer | Walking on a wave's chicane CDnow Inc. | Staring as she called my name. http://cdnow.com | And I can't get it out of my head - ELO