Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 17:03:08 -0600 From: Jacques Vidrine <n@nectar.com> To: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> Cc: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams), bdodson@beowulf.utmb.edu, sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fortran in the base system Message-ID: <199812162303.RAA12584@spawn.nectar.com> In-Reply-To: <199812162227.OAA08758@tao.thought.org> References: <199812162227.OAA08758@tao.thought.org>
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On 16 December 1998 at 14:27, Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> wrote:
> I've always thought of a computer system _without_ FORTRAN
> as serious lacking. Not because my first course was in F77;
> after all, this was a few (um, 20) summers ago. But because
> FORTRAN is still fairly widely used in the non-hacker
> disciplines.
>
> If we do yank it--with or without extreme prejudice--then
> when some non-geek user does an % appropos fortran, he should
> see something like
>
> fortran: you gotta port it if you wanna use it.
>
> Nutshell: I'm almost neutral, but not entirely.
The following patch is needed? :-)
--- apropos.sh.orig Wed Dec 16 17:01:11 1998
+++ apropos.sh Wed Dec 16 17:02:00 1998
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@
do
if grep -hi $grepopt -- "$manpage" $mandir; then :
else
- echo "$manpage: nothing appropriate"
+ echo "$manpage: port not installed -- go to /usr/ports"
fi
done |
Jacques Vidrine / n@nectar.com / nectar@FreeBSD.org
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