Miles Nordin wrote:
> > You wish to talk to Roland Mainz, Glenn Fowler and
> > Jennifer Pioch
> > then. They have opensource replacements for
> > /usr/bin/sed,
> > /usr/xpg4/bin/sed, /usr/bin/tail, /usr/xpg4/bin/tail,
> > /usr/bin/tr and
> > /usr/xpg4/bin/tr.
> 
> is this a joke?

No, this is no joke. I am in the process of updating my bulid machines
and then I make a Subversion tree which includes code for getting an
opensource replacement for "tail" (both /usr/bin/tail and
/usr/xpg4/bin/tail) and later "sed" (both /usr/bin/tail and
/usr/xpg4/bin/tail), (/usr/bin/|/usr/xpg4/bin/|/usr/xpg6/bin/)tr and
/usr/bin/pax. Basically we're now quickly getting rid of all
closed-source POSIX commands (as part of the upcoming "POSIX commands
community").

>  Wherever could they find such precious and novel work?
> maybe, from the GNU project, fifteen years ago?

No, the work is based on the AT&T AST codebase - the same stuff where
ksh93 comes from.

> oh, o sorry my mistake they want *XPG4* versions.  seriously, WHO CARES?  We 
> are talking about this source:
> 
>  http://opensolaris.org/os/about/no_source/

Right... as said I try to push the matching source code as fast as
possible...

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Bye,
Roland

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