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From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Subject: Re: BSD vs. Linux
Message-ID: <CMEJvJ.3rD@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh
References: <1994Mar8.141900.2906@wubios.wustl.edu> <1994Mar9.094748.4022@swan.pyr>
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 1994 14:50:07 GMT
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In article <1994Mar9.094748.4022@swan.pyr> iiitac@swan.pyr (Alan Cox) writes:
>Most of the core utilities are the same - being the GNU utilities. Generally
>speaking it looks like this
>
>			BSD			Linux
>Shells		bash,tcsh,ksh		bash,tcsh,ksh
>X windows	Xfree86			Xfree86
>Utilities	GNU			GNU
>Compiler	GCC			GCC

This is somewhat misleading.  In NetBSD 0.9, only a few of the
standard utilities apart from the compiler are GNU versions, though
they are some of the most important ones:

diff rcs diff3 grep sdiff bc groff lex sort cpio gawk gzip pr tar

-- Richard
-- 
Richard Tobin, HCRC, Edinburgh University                 R.Tobin@ed.ac.uk

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