From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 27 14: 7:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dt011n65.san.rr.com (dt011n65.san.rr.com [204.210.13.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2176914C4F for ; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 14:07:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by dt011n65.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA01965; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 14:07:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 14:07:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug X-Sender: doug@dt011n65.san.rr.com To: Jamie Howard Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: replacing grep(1) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Jamie Howard wrote: > I do not have a copy of POSIX, but I do have Unix98 which is a superset of > POSIX. Right now, excluding bugs, it is Unix 98 and therefore POSIX > compliant Good news, thanks for addressing this concern. > except for -e. -e should permit multiple patterns and it never > occured to me that anyone would want to do this. Ah, well, if the world were limited to just what I could imagine, how boring would that be? The more complete the feature set, the better off we are for my money. Doug -- On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does. -- Will Rogers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message