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Date:      Tue, 29 Aug 1995 18:06:42 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
To:        paul@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        jkh@freefall.FreeBSD.org, CVS-commiters@freefall.FreeBSD.org, cvs-gnu@freefall.FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/send-pr Makefile
Message-ID:  <199508300106.SAA05136@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
In-Reply-To: <199508291255.NAA15449@server.netcraft.co.uk> from "Paul Richards" at Aug 29, 95 01:55:26 pm

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> 
> In reply to Jordan K. Hubbard who said
> > 
> > jkh         95/08/28 16:16:29
> > 
> >   Modified:    gnu/usr.bin/send-pr  Makefile
> >   Log:
> >   Link send-pr to sendbug.  sendbug is back!  hurrah!
> > 
> 
> Has anyone actually complained that sendbug is missing? Just seems silly
> to me to link something that did one job to one that does something in
> a completely different way just so an old name can be used.
> 
> Oh well, guess I jsut don't have the same nostalgic attitude to obsolete
> command names. Let's just not tell people to use sendbug OK, it's hard enough
> getting people to use send-pr without confusing them by telling them to use
> either.
> 
> Oh, you need a manpage for sendbug.

And a command interface wrapper that is compatible with sendbug.  Shell
scripts written for automagic sendbug sending are going to barf on gnats.

IMHO, this is an incompatibility hack with every other BSD system in
existence.  If it is called ``sendbug'' it had better behave exactly
like sendbug or people and shell scripts are going for a shocker.


-- 
Rod Grimes                                      rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com
Accurate Automation Company                 Reliable computers for FreeBSD



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