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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
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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.