Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 15:31:38 +0100 From: Eirik Nygaard <eirikn@bluezone.no> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: replacing GNU grep with UNIX grep. Message-ID: <20030204143138.GA32673@eirikn.net> In-Reply-To: <20030204043947.GA89003@opiate.thirteenandtwo.org> References: <giffunip@yahoo.com> <20030204001532.96925.qmail@web13402.mail.yahoo.com> <200302040151.h141pEvu039254@orthanc.ab.ca> <20030204043947.GA89003@opiate.thirteenandtwo.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 11:39:47PM -0500, Munish Chopra wrote: > 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 > I am working on a BSD lisenced grep, missing some functions. Checking if file is a binary file and some other small things. If anyone wants I can upload it somewhere. -- Eirik Nygaard <eirikn@bluezone.no> PGP Key: 83C55EDE [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+P87J1JB0Z4PFXt4RAhJPAJ9GapMUBz8v/VxISEDr6oFVr34V7gCdH/a3 PGXOBaLn5usPO3uxsQl9cvg= =6Lw0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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