Date: Mon, 11 Sep 1995 12:38:57 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: whereis Message-ID: <199509111038.MAA24151@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199509110650.XAA11860@io.cts.com> from "Morgan Davis" at Sep 10, 95 11:50:46 pm
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As Morgan Davis wrote: > > > "whereis" has been crippled beyond recognition in 4.4BSD. It has to > > be rewritten, the current functionality is absolutely useless. Either > > Wolfram Schneider (but with low priority for this) or me will revamp > > it probably in Perl. > > Yup. You're talking about the original whereis, the one that can find > man pages, too, right? ...and the source. I've got a prototype in Perl for review to Wolfram Schneider (hacked after the old man page). Stay tuned... Btw. (Rod?), would copying parts of a 1.1.5.1 manual page into the current one violate the license agreement? I don't see much sense in rewording it. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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