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From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber)
Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 23:47:43 +0000 (UTC)
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Originator: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber)
To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Replacing GNU grep revisited
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Sean Farley <sean-freebsd@farley.org> wrote:

> Reasons to consider for switching:

For whatever little it's worth, OpenBSD just switched to freegrep
(a somewhat modified version from NetBSD).  They also dumped the
GNU gzip implementation, after extending compress to substitute as
/usr/bin/gzip.

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de