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Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 21:05:58 +1300
From: Joe Abley <jabley@clear.co.nz>
To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>,
        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>,
        Duncan Barclay <dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG,
        jabley@clear.co.nz
Subject: Re: FICL and setting BTX variables
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On Sun, Jan 10, 1999 at 10:57:39PM -0800, Mike Smith wrote:
> 
> > Yup. So he did. (Do I need to mention I do have other PRs open
> > concerning the loader? kern/9371, misc/9373 (these two go together),
> > kern/9398 (this one requires making a choice, I realize), and
> > kern/9406 (well, this one can easily go ages ignored :), just in
> > case you were waiting for the numbers :).
> 
> I'm not sure about the whole softwords/help text munging thing.  Using 
> Perl scripts is bad for various reasons, but I'm not sure that I want 
> to go to having committed generated files (like the kernel uses) or the 
> other way to compiled special-purpose tools.  Anyone handy with awk 
> want to try fixing these - both would probably succumb to the awesome 
> power of awk.

Eh? <wakes up at mention of awk>

If someone needs some awk writing, and can describe clearly what needs
doing, I'll do it.

Mmm. Awk :)


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