From owner-freebsd-current Mon Apr 30 9:36:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from lists01.iafrica.com (lists01.iafrica.com [196.7.0.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3E8837B43F; Mon, 30 Apr 2001 09:36:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sheldonh@uunet.co.za) Received: from nwl.fw.uunet.co.za ([196.31.2.162]) by lists01.iafrica.com with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #2) id 14uGej-0006ML-00; Mon, 30 Apr 2001 18:36:13 +0200 Received: (from nobody@localhost) by nwl.fw.uunet.co.za (8.8.8/8.6.9) id SAA25763; Mon, 30 Apr 2001 18:36:12 +0200 (SAST) Received: by nwl.fw.uunet.co.za via recvmail id 25654; Mon Apr 30 18:35:08 2001 Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.fw.uunet.co.za) by axl.fw.uunet.co.za with local-esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 14uGdg-0005g2-00; Mon, 30 Apr 2001 18:35:08 +0200 To: obrien@freebsd.org Cc: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cp -u patch In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 30 Apr 2001 09:30:27 MST." <20010430093027.A13451@dragon.nuxi.com> Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 18:35:08 +0200 Message-ID: <21825.988648508@axl.fw.uunet.co.za> From: Sheldon Hearn Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 30 Apr 2001 09:30:27 MST, "David O'Brien" wrote: > Do you also suggest we get rid of `more' as its functionality can be > implimented using cat and sed? I personally find this option useful > enough that I have to keep `gcp' around. That's part of my concern. A lot of our feature creep seems to come from folks who have one particular thing they do a lot, but that lots of other folks don't. Personally, I've _never_ needed such a feature in cp(1) _once_ in the 3 or 4 years that I've been using BSD UNIX. That doesn't make me right. It just makes me skeptical. :-) Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message