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Date:      Sat, 12 Aug 2006 07:50:39 +0000
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
Cc:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: suggested addition to 'date' 
Message-ID:  <94452.1155369039@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 12 Aug 2006 10:44:00 %2B0300." <20060812074400.GA9572@gothmog.pc> 

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In message <20060812074400.GA9572@gothmog.pc>, Giorgos Keramidas writes:
>On 2006-08-11 22:53, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> wrote:

>This is getting too complex for my taste though.  I don't see cat(1)
>doing signal trickery, so why should date(1) do these things?
>
>Perhaps it's not a good idea to 'bloat' date(1) so much...

I think I'll second that.  The idea is good enough to merit it's
own program.

Or maybe it belongs in the logger(1) program instead ?

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