From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Aug 29 03:22:29 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id DAA22437 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 29 Aug 1995 03:22:29 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id DAA22420 for ; Tue, 29 Aug 1995 03:22:06 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id MAA14800 for ; Tue, 29 Aug 1995 12:21:54 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id MAA20161 for hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org; Tue, 29 Aug 1995 12:21:53 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id IAA17364 for hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org; Tue, 29 Aug 1995 08:41:26 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199508290641.IAA17364@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: postmaster@yggdrasil.com: Yggdrasil Product Information To: hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Date: Tue, 29 Aug 1995 08:41:24 +0200 (MET DST) Action: ckers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Reply-To: hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <18348.809651864@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Aug 28, 95 04:17:44 pm Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 1250 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)