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From: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org>
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To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
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Subject: Re: New tests for test(1) 
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On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, Sheldon Hearn wrote:

> 
> 
> On Fri, 13 Aug 1999 15:36:24 +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> 
> > It would be nice, but there are portability issues.
> 
> Hi Peter,
> 
> I'm only replying to your mail because you're the last person to mention
> portability as a case againsdt NetBSD's test(1).
> 
> Just how many other platforms need to support an _extension_ that is
> _fully_ backward compatible before we'll consider implementing it?
> 
> With this attitude driving us, we'll end up being the only OS that
> doesn't support a number of fetures, all in the name of portability. :-)

I fully agree with this. If it can be cleanly added to the current test(1)
(which it can), we should have it, even if it were JUST for the sake of
portability. I don't see why we shouldn't add it. I mean, /bin/sh is
already a bastardized shell that's partway to ksh, so we could at least
support more features than we do now :)

> 
> Ciao,
> Sheldon.
> 
> 
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