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Cc: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, current@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: suggested addition to 'date' 
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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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