The following reply was made to PR bin/34244; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Aleksey Cheusov <cheusov@tut.by>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: gnats-admin@NetBSD.org, netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: PR/34244 CVS commit: src/usr.bin/cut
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 22:47:56 +0200

 >  Committed By:	hubertf
 >  Date:		Sat Feb 17 19:10:00 UTC 2007
 >  
 >  Modified Files:
 >  	src/usr.bin/cut: cut.c
 >  Added Files:
 >  	src/usr.bin/cut: x_cut.c
 
 Thanks. it works.
 
 hint: the following trick may significantly speed up 'cut -c'
 ...
 case 'c':
   if (MB_CUR_MAX == 1)
      fcn = b_cut;
   else
      fcn = c_cut;
 ...
 
 Could you please merge these changes to netbsd-4
 (and if possible netbsd-3) branches?
 
 -- 
 Best regards, Aleksey Cheusov.