Subject: Re: NetBSD 1.5 strfile
To: NetBSD User's Discussion List <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: Juha Ulkoniemi <juhaulko@hauki.haukipudas.fi>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 08/20/2001 16:58:17
[this is a bit off-topic, but who cares] 

On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 07:45:30PM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> [ On Saturday, August 18, 2001 at 11:07:31 (-0700), John Hawkinson wrote: ]
> > Subject: Re: NetBSD 1.5 strfile?
> >
> > In this case, it appears that this is a bug previously reported,
> > as bin/9316, "strfile and unstr binary is not installed but online manual is installed," by Tanaka Akira in January of last year.
> > juha <juhaulko@hauki.haukipudas.fi> wrote on Mon, 16 Jul 2001
> > at 19:52:05 +0300 in <20010716195205.A320@timberwolf.org>:
> > > 
> > > Since it serves no purpose in real life, it is not installed. One could argue
> > > that it's man page shouldn't be installed either...

Err, Greg, I *did* not write that. I'm the one who asked about strfile, and
Martin Husemann replied to my question:

= snip =>
 
>Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de> wrote on Mon, 16 Jul 2001
>at 20:23:24 +0200 in <200107161823.f6GINPp11377@night-porter.duskware.de>:

> > Since it serves no purpose in real life, it is not installed. One could argue
> > that it's man page shouldn't be installed either...
> > 
> > If you need it, goto /usr/src/games/fortune/strfile and do "make".

= snip =<

Perhaps your mail user agent screwed up something? Here's a part of your newest
e-mail to this strfile 'thread':

> My comment was merely made to point out that regardless of what the PR
> author suggested, Juha's suggestion was not agreeable to me.

That's "Martin's suggestion", not "Juha's" if I understood correctly ;)

No BFD :) 

-- ju