On 3 xxx -1, alison wrote:

> My simple question is this: does NetBSD (or any BSD, for that matter)
> have its own utilities, or is it mostly a separately-licensed kernel
> with lots of Gnu utilities a la Linux?  By this i mean, does it have
> "traditional" tar, compress, bc/dc, cc, ls, mv, rm, sh, cat, awk, grep,
> ed, ex/vi, sed etc. without all the Gnu "enhancements"?

Yes and no. The GPL utilities (including gcc) are "contained" in
src/gnu, all the rest are traditional *BSD. You can start browsing
src/gnu for the current release (will be 1.4.2), for example, at

http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/gnusrc/gnu/?only_with_tag=netbsd-1-4-RELEASE