Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 14:02:48 -0700 From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bringing LPRng into FreeBSD? Message-ID: <200006272103.OAA35169@passer.osg.gov.bc.ca> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 27 Jun 2000 11:48:40 PDT." <20000627114840.B60692@dragon.nuxi.com>
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In message <20000627114840.B60692@dragon.nuxi.com>, "David O'Brien" writes: > On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 11:56:33AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > > : Ahh, but very few (if any) of them are needed in an embedded system. > > : How many people are going to run 'grep' on an embedded system, or > > : re-compile the source to the system? > > > > There are many instances of awk and grep in the startup scripts :-(. > > I am more than willing to bring the One True AWK into src/contrib/ to > kick out GNU AWK. So that would be one down, one to go. What about GNU sort? About 5 years ago, when I switched from Linux to FreeBSD, I had a file that, for some unknown reason, wouldn't sort into the right sequence with GNU sort -- it was the weirdest thing. Building and installing a copy 4.4BSD sort from a 4.4BSD CDROM solved the weird little problem at the time. Every other file I've sorted with GNU sort since then has had no problems being sorted. One of the things on my todo list is to build a 4.4BSD sort port [I'm a poet and don't even know it :) ] which would have the features of GNU sort but with a BSD license and hopefully not the bug I found 5 years ago. Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 Team Leader, Sun/DEC Team Internet: Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca Open Systems Group, ITSD, ISTA Province of BC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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