Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 17:32:37 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> To: Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no> Cc: Michael Carr <sphaleotas@blueyonder.co.uk> Subject: Re: RMS says: "Use BSD, for goodness sake!" Message-ID: <20030626172910.N98477@hub.org> In-Reply-To: <xzp1xxg8u2v.fsf@dwp.des.no> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20030625214311.00e5e240@localhost> <20030626010357.J508@hub.org> <20030626110336.GW34365@iconoplex.co.uk> <xzp1xxg8u2v.fsf@dwp.des.no>
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On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Dag-Erling [iso-8859-1] Smørgrav wrote: Potentially stupid questions, but ... > > bc - an undergrad could re-implement based on man page > > With a good arbitrary-precision math library, yes. The one we have > happens to be GPLed. Is there anything at the operating system level that uses/requires bc, or could it be moved to ports ... ? Like, I use it, but its a command line tool, not something I've seen used in scripts ... > > groff - look at alternate doc formatting? > > Not bloody likely, unless you volunteer to convert all the man pages > (including translations). What was used before groff? there was an nroff and troff before groff, no? or is it just that there are alot of 'groff-isms' that we're using in the man pages? > > less - re-implementable quite quickly > > You might be surprised... ... but any reason why its part of hte main system instead of just put into ports? > > man - could be re-implemented based on file format information known > > This is a SMOP. SMOP? *raised eyebrow*
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