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Synopsis: new port, GNU textutils

State-Changed-From-To: open-closed
State-Changed-By: mph
State-Changed-When: Tue Jun 16 15:19:36 EDT 1998
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Imported, thanks!

> Is there some blindingly obvious reason why this has seemingly
> never been done before?

My guess:  These utilities are most often used in scripting, and the
enhancements found in the GNU set of tools do not outweigh the need to
have the tools installed; I suspect most people would instead code
for the functionality subset that is available on the most platforms.


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