Date: Tue, 29 Aug 1995 08:41:24 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: postmaster@yggdrasil.com: Yggdrasil Product Information Message-ID: <199508290641.IAA17364@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <18348.809651864@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Aug 28, 95 04:17:44 pm
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As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
>
> > Basically what our old `whereis' command did. I don't like the extra
> > blubber above (e.g. running file(1) on the executable), but i really
> > loved to have a command that was pointing at the location of the
> > source and man page as well as the binary. Are there any reasons to
> > stick with the crippled 4.4 version?
>
> Not that I can see. I'd be happy to see a more featureful version!
Are there any legal problems with re-importing the Net2 code here? As
far as i can see, this program originated at Berkeley:
WHEREIS(1) FreeBSD Reference Manual WHEREIS(1)
NAME
whereis - locate binary, manual, and or source for program
SYNOPSIS
whereis [-bms] [-u] [-BMS dir ... -f] name ...
...
HISTORY
The whereis command appeared in 3.0BSD.
3rd Berkeley Distribution August 29, 1995 1
/*-
* Copyright (c) 1980 The Regents of the University of California.
(:-)
* All rights reserved.
*
In case of doubt, perhaps Wolfram would volunteer to re-hack it in
Perl?
--
cheers, J"org
joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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