From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Jun 27 15:20:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from point.osg.gov.bc.ca (point.osg.gov.bc.ca [142.32.102.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BDD937BB50; Tue, 27 Jun 2000 15:20:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by point.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.8.7/8.8.8) id PAA07367; Tue, 27 Jun 2000 15:20:11 -0700 Received: from passer.osg.gov.bc.ca(142.32.110.29) via SMTP by point.osg.gov.bc.ca, id smtpda07361; Tue Jun 27 15:19:54 2000 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by passer.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.9.3/8.9.1) id PAA36150; Tue, 27 Jun 2000 15:19:53 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200006272219.PAA36150@passer.osg.gov.bc.ca> Received: from localhost.osg.gov.bc.ca(127.0.0.1), claiming to be "passer.osg.gov.bc.ca" via SMTP by localhost.osg.gov.bc.ca, id smtpdN36144; Tue Jun 27 15:18:58 2000 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 Reply-To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group X-OS: FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE X-Sender: cy To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group , obrien@FreeBSD.org, Warner Losh , Nate Williams , arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: BSD sort(1) (Re: Bringing LPRng into FreeBSD?) In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 27 Jun 2000 14:57:29 PDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 15:18:58 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message , Kri s Kennaway writes: > On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group wrote: > > > One of the things on my todo list is to build a 4.4BSD sort port [I'm a > > poet and don't even know it :) ] which would have the features of GNU > > sort but with a BSD license and hopefully not the bug I found 5 years > > ago. > > Open and NetBSD use a modified 4.4BSD sort(1) Seems like the path of least resistance for now. I'll check it out. Thanks. Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 Team Leader, Sun/DEC Team Internet: Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca Open Systems Group, ITSD, ISTA Province of BC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message