From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jun 30 0:19:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from atdot.dotat.org (atdot.dotat.org [150.101.89.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DBAA14E0D for ; Wed, 30 Jun 1999 00:19:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from newton@atdot.dotat.org) Received: (from newton@localhost) by atdot.dotat.org (8.9.3/8.7) id QAA34412; Wed, 30 Jun 1999 16:47:12 +0930 (CST) From: Mark Newton Message-Id: <199906300717.QAA34412@atdot.dotat.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports LEGAL To: kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au (Kris Kennaway) Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 16:47:11 +0930 (CST) Cc: chat@freebsd.org, cpiazza@home.net In-Reply-To: from "Kris Kennaway" at Jun 30, 99 04:28:44 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Mark Newton wrote: > > Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > Joking aside, does this port really do anything other than spit newlines to > > > the terminal? If so, I'm not sure it warrants being an entire port. > > > > Yeah, you're right. We should wait 'til the GNU version comes out, > > with 75 command-line options... Then commit it to the base distribution. > > You mean `gcls --color-clear --black-clear --depth=25 --smooth-scroll=on > --tune=stairway_to_heaven.mp3 --nice=-20`? It's indispensable! :) You forgot "--mailbox=/var/mail/newton". Remember that all free software projects develop ultimately to the point where they can read email. It'd be written with a modular architecture too, so that it'd start your windscreen wipers if you ran it on your car's MP3 player. - mark :-) -------------------------------------------------------------------- I tried an internal modem, newton@atdot.dotat.org but it hurt when I walked. Mark Newton ----- Voice: +61-4-1620-2223 ------------- Fax: +61-8-82231777 ----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message