Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 01:54:14 +1000 From: David Nugent <davidn@labs.usn.blaze.net.au> To: "Joel N. Weber II" <devnull@gnu.ai.mit.edu>, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OS/2 users going to FreeBSD? :-) Message-ID: <199706231554.BAA01580@labs.usn.blaze.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 19 Jun 1997 00:55:11 -0400." <199706190455.AAA06844@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu>
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> Yes, and another problem I found within a day on the same netbsd-hp-m68k > machine is that GNU find doesn't print sizes correctly in `-ls'. > (It does work fine on a Linux machine.) > > OTOH, since the bugs were discovered on a machine in the gnu.ai.mit.edu > domain, I think there's some hope they'll get fixed. :-) > OTOH Hey, you're running out of "other hands" here! > I generally prefer GNU find, since I can do something like > `find -name foobar' and GNU find will do the equivalent of > `find . -name foobar -print'. Actually, I quite like the -fprint option in gnu find. It's damned useful for front-ends, something I've been meaning to look at adding to FreeBSD's for a few months now. > (I actually took the time to install GNU find in my account on a solaris > machine because of this...) gnu find one of the tools I carry around too. Still, I 'replace' very little these days from a stock FreeBSD build on any machine I intend to use a lot, which is pretty much limited to ssh, tcsh and 'less' in the urgent category with things like gfind and gmake in the second level. Unlike Linux, where I have built a personalised /usr/local/tools tree just so that I can keep track of things I need to take with me since I've run out of fingers and toes on which to keep count. That most Linux distributions use 99% GNU tools is probably significant. Regards, David David Nugent - Unique Computing Pty Ltd - Melbourne, Australia Voice +61-3-9791-9547 Data/BBS +61-3-9792-3507 3:632/348@fidonet davidn@freebsd.org davidn@blaze.net.au http://www.blaze.net.au/~davidn/
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