On Sat, Dec 18, 1999 at 12:54:24PM -0500, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> 
> Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr> writes:
> > I had to install then here because my users are used to GNU tools, especially
> > for writing sripts. The BSD ones don't have the same options or semantics.
> 
> If there are features really missing from our tools, we should add
> them rather than providing work-arounds...

I'm not sure these features are missing from our tools (I don't need it
myself); it's just a matter of compatibility between systems.
I could as well have installed the BSD tools on Linux and solaris for this
purpose, but
- my users don't like BSD tools
- I have to take care of existing scripts

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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