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To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
Subject: Re: gensetdefs using sh(1),sed(1),grep(1) and awk(1) 
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Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 01:10:21 -0700
From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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In message <20001219233816.H19572@fw.wintelcom.net> Alfred Perlstein writes:
: Now can we end the bikeshed and just use the fast and _READABLE_
: perl version?

Agreed.  perl is required to build the kernel.  People should be used
to it by now and have learned to cope a long time ago.  kobj has
required it for some time now and that won't be rewritten in sh any
time soon.

Warner


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