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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!worldnet.att.net!newsfeed.nacamar.de!fu-berlin.de!uniol!news.uni-stuttgart.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!not-for-mail From: uk1o@rzstud2.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Felix Schroeter) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: GNU fileutils Date: 20 Apr 1997 02:59:22 +0200 Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany Lines: 17 Message-ID: <5jbppa$cdf@rzstud2.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> References: <335345b9.1430192@news.fu-berlin.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: rzstud2.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit NNTP-Posting-User: uk1o Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39385 Hello! In article <335345b9.1430192@news.fu-berlin.de>, Axel Thimm <thimm@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: >[...] >1) does it seem that there is no need? Do you miss something from the fileutils? For at least almost anything, there's some BSD program that does it. >2) political reasons? Perhaps. The free BSD projects prefer BSD style licenced software over GPL software. Regards, Felix.