From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 3 20:40: 4 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D22EA37B401 for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 20:40:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from opiate.thirteenandtwo.org (CPE0030ab0ef2bb-CM014490123332.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [24.103.202.201]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71C3243FA3 for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 20:39:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from munish@opiate.thirteenandtwo.org) Received: by opiate.thirteenandtwo.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 6C19C229; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 23:39:47 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 23:39:47 -0500 From: Munish Chopra To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: replacing GNU grep with UNIX grep. Message-ID: <20030204043947.GA89003@opiate.thirteenandtwo.org> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20030204001532.96925.qmail@web13402.mail.yahoo.com> <200302040151.h141pEvu039254@orthanc.ab.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200302040151.h141pEvu039254@orthanc.ab.ca> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2003-02-03 18:51 +0000, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: > >The classic Unix including BSD4.4 UNIX is now under a > >BSD-like license too (finding it is another issue > >though ;). > > Kirk McKusick sells a CD-ROM collection containing all the CSRG > distributions: > > https://www.mckusick.com/csrg/ > > Pretty much everything that had to be GNUified in BSD/386 and friends > (thanks to the Death Star's lawyers) can be found in all its glory on > the CDs. And thanks to Caldera, it can now be freely distributed. > > A lot of the CSRG code is missing functionality that we've picked up > along the way, and much of it is pre-ANSI C, so there's work to be done > to bring it up to date. Regardless, the CSRG code is a good starting > point for a lot of things. (For example, I'm currently about half way > through getting troff updated.) I think tjr mentioned he had started converting a few utilities. Anyone picking things up may want to pick up where he left off. -- Munish Chopra To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message