Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 00:02:22 +0000 (UTC) From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD-licensed gzip, grep and diff families in OpenBSD Message-ID: <bi6aue$13c7$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> References: <200308230102.21879.avleeuwen@piwebs.com>
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Arjan van Leeuwen <avleeuwen@piwebs.com> wrote: > It seems that OpenBSD now has BSD licensed versions of the gzip, grep and diff > families (see > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=105899089116252&w=2). Wouldn't > it be a good idea to import them into FreeBSD? Yes, maybe, no. gzip should be fine. grep is largely compatible with GNU grep but offers worse performance. Apparently much worse in some corner cases. diff lacks a lot of the extensions from the GNU version which everybody takes for granted, e.g. no -p, -x, or -I, and there's no sdiff. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de
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