From owner-cvs-all Mon Dec 4 14: 2:11 2000 From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 4 14:02:08 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18DF337B400; Mon, 4 Dec 2000 14:02:06 -0800 (PST) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.11.0/8.11.0) id eB4M0Bl01640; Mon, 4 Dec 2000 22:00:11 GMT (envelope-from nik) Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 22:00:11 +0000 From: Nik Clayton To: Warner Losh Cc: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven , Matt Dillon , John Baldwin , cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/tail forward.c read.c reverse.c tail Message-ID: <20001204220011.A1618@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> References: <20001204210848.B64100@lucifer.bart.nl> <200012031705.eB3H5ke30393@freefall.freebsd.org> <20001204202406.A64100@lucifer.bart.nl> <200012041942.eB4Jgrp75009@earth.backplane.com> <20001204210848.B64100@lucifer.bart.nl> <200012042013.NAA63405@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200012042013.NAA63405@harmony.village.org>; from imp@village.org on Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 01:13:36PM -0700 Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 01:13:36PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <20001204210848.B64100@lucifer.bart.nl> Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven writes: > : What I tried to communicate in my last message to John was the fact that > : I am actively working on the userland, synching it with NetBSD and > : OpenBSD and bringing the source code more up to par with modern day > : standards and tools. > > I would like to lend my voice of support for this action. We have too > many programs that have needlessly drifted since the mid 1990's when > 4.xBSD BSD split into {Free,Net,Open}BSD[*]. Why do we need to have > different versions of cat? Ditto. Not just different versions of cat.c, but also different versions of cat.1, not to mention duplicated translation efforts across the BSDs. N -- Internet connection, $19.95 a month. Computer, $799.95. Modem, $149.95. Telephone line, $24.95 a month. Software, free. USENET transmission, hundreds if not thousands of dollars. Thinking before posting, priceless. Somethings in life you can't buy. For everything else, there's MasterCard. -- Graham Reed, in the Scary Devil Monastery To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message