Re: src/games bikeshed time.

2002-10-10 Thread James Howard
On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > Have you given up on your grep implementation? :-) > > Quite a few folks were really looking forward to it. The big objection to it was it was not as fast as GNU Grep. A few times, I've trimmed a few cycles here and there, but it is still 1/2 the spee

Re: src/games bikeshed time.

2002-10-10 Thread James Howard
On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Mark Murray wrote: > > So if someone were willing to take over the lot and manage them as Ports, > > how would anyone feel about this? > > > > FreeGrep uses the FreeBSD build style and is easily a Port. I could > > Port-ify the entire directory in, say, two days. Anyone in

Re: src/games bikeshed time.

2002-10-09 Thread James Howard
As a quick follow up, the PR database shows between fifteen and twenty PRs relating to src/games. Also, if this happened, should fortune be treated differently and moved into src/usr.bin? Or should it become a port? Jamie On Wednesday, October 9, 2002, at 09:58 PM, James Howard wrote: >

Re: src/games bikeshed time.

2002-10-09 Thread James Howard
So if someone were willing to take over the lot and manage them as Ports, how would anyone feel about this? FreeGrep uses the FreeBSD build style and is easily a Port. I could Port-ify the entire directory in, say, two days. Anyone interested? Jamie On Wednesday, October 9, 2002, at 09:41 PM,

Re: PATCH: /usr/src/usr.bin/login

2001-05-20 Thread James Howard
On Wed, 16 May 2001, Terry Lambert wrote: > This patch adds the "prompt" and "passwd_prompt" fields to the > /etc/login.conf, which makes lgoin more like getty in its ability > to be configured. Cool, I used to hack mine by hand to look like OpenVMS... Jamie To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMA

Re: /usr/ports/ too big?

2000-02-13 Thread James Howard
On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Kai Voigt wrote: > Hello, > > I'm just doing a cvsup update of my system and -as many times before- I > realize that /usr/ports/ takes a lot of time and also disk space to sync. > > # du -sk /usr/ports > 71118 /usr/ports > > Am I the only one being little annoyed by this

EXT2FS as a KLD

2000-02-02 Thread James Howard
Would someone please look at kern/14217 to maybe be included in 4.0-STABLE? I know, I should have asked last week but it just occurred to me now. Thank you, Jamie -- Jamie Howard To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: ColdFusion 4.5 RC3

2000-01-27 Thread James Howard
On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Brian Hechinger wrote: > yes. sorry about the confusion, i forgot to mention that. > Allaire off-record said that they aren't happy with Linux > and are seeking an alternative. i seem to be pushing > them towards FreeBSD. but, keep in mind, this will be a > huge shift in d

Re: bzip2 in src tree

2000-01-24 Thread James Howard
On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Brad Knowles wrote: > Can't we do both? Use gzip on the install floppy, but include > bzip2 in /usr/src, and make sure that all the various programs that > deal with tarballs and gzip'ed tarballs can also deal with bzip2 > tarballs (including in the ports system)? >

Re: Port of ext2fs fsck

1999-12-25 Thread James Howard
On Sun, 26 Dec 1999, Bruce Evans wrote: > > Yes, but isn't this stuff GPL'd? The fsck_ext2fs program from Open- or > > NetBSD is not. > > Sure. So is ext2fs for FreeBSD, and some other small programs like gcc. Is the ext2fs implementation in Net or Open GPL'd? If not, copy it too. Jamie

Re: grep -a (-stable)

1999-12-07 Thread James Howard
On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Max Khon wrote: > I know about this beast. It would be nice if our out-of-box grep had > this option. Hah, it used to. I modeled it exactly on it (option-wise). BTW, if you do choose to use it, get it soon. I submitted a PR yesterday for my newest version. It is a faster,

Re: grep -a (-stable)

1999-12-07 Thread James Howard
On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Max Khon wrote: > hi, there! > > it is not possible to make short equivalent for old grep -a option > (as in grep 2.3 -a is used for other purposes). > it is possible to make a long option (--skip-binary) but long options > are quite unusable. GREP_OPTIONS cannot help much >

Re: removing enigma(1)

1999-12-01 Thread James Howard
On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > On Wed, Dec 01, 1999 at 04:36:12PM -0500, a little birdie told me > that James Howard remarked > > On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > > > > > > [15:25:53] mortis:~ > > > (ttyp9):{838}% ll -i `whi

Re: removing enigma(1)

1999-12-01 Thread James Howard
On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > On Wed, Dec 01, 1999 at 04:09:11PM -0500, a little birdie told me > that Bakul Shah remarked > > > > Enigma is just a format converter at this point and should be > > left around (after renaming it crypt -- which is how it is > > known on all Unix v

Re: FreeSSH

1999-10-13 Thread James Howard
On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, Patrick Bihan-Faou wrote: > Hi All, > > >It strikes me that having the base system be slightly more decomposed > > could be advantageous. It would be great to be able to do something like: > > > >pkg_delete lp > >pkg_delete yp > > > >Has anyone done/tried th

Re: Netscape core dump, happily :-)

1999-10-03 Thread James Howard
On Sun, 3 Oct 1999, Gianmarco Giovannelli wrote: > Is there anyone who is experienced Netscape crashes with 4.0-CURRENT when > the close button is pressed (not always, but very often) ? > It happens to me with 4.61 and 4.70 , it doesn't happen with 3.2-STABLE I > have at work. I have had probl