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From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
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Subject: Re: AWK/perl hacker needed to assist the Sparc64 port
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Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> * M. Warner Losh <imp@village.org> [020212 10:46] wrote:
> > In message: <20020212103646.P63886@elvis.mu.org>
> >             Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> writes:
> > : * M. Warner Losh <imp@village.org> [020212 10:35] wrote:
> > : > In message: <20020212084918.A69309@dragon.nuxi.com>
> > : >             "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> writes:
> > : > : A shell hacker could really help out the FreeBSD/sparc64 porting effort
> > : > : by updating vnode_if.pl rev 1.19 to have all the functionality the perl
> > : > : version has today.
> > : >
> > : > Would a 'C' hacker do :-)
> > :
> > : Heh, I wish someone would add some extra regex and seperator type
> > : stuff to our 'sh' that became available when running it under
> > : another name or with a special flag...
> > :
> > : any takers on that one? :)
> >
> > Well, we could import ksh, which already does this :-)
> 
> Go for it.


vnode_if.pl is a perl script.

I don't understand the request for a shell hacker in the first
place.

-- Terry

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