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Date:      Mon, 1 Jul 1996 12:42:33 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
To:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
Cc:        Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: compile_et & mk_cmds?
Message-ID:  <199607011842.MAA10492@rocky.mt.sri.com>
In-Reply-To: <9607011827.AA09845@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
References:  <199607010418.WAA08199@rocky.mt.sri.com> <9607011827.AA09845@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>

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> > Could compile_et be moved to eBones,
> 
> Erm, why?  It's a general-purpose utility/library, used by many libraries
> developed at MIT.

Is it used at all by FreeBSD?

> > and what is the purpose of mk_cmds?
> 
> It generates a command table for the `subsystem' library (libss), for
> which the same comment applies.  I would like to replace it with
> something a little more modern (probably tcl), but this will take some
> time and work that I'm not prepared to spend right now.

Is it used by *anything* in FreeBSD?  If not, why do we have it?  We
recently moved out libforms since it wasn't used, so the same arguement
should apply to libss.


Nate


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