Chris Beggy on Sat, 15 Jun 2002 00:50:26 +0200 |
Noah silva <nsilva@atari-source.com> writes: > I think RMS's argument is entirely invalid. > > "tar' isn't all of userland. and GNU tar wasn't very usefull intil it had > a real kernal to run on. What's more, I could easily write TAR, CP, LS, > etc. I wouldn't try to write anything liek the linux kernal. We don't Linus started trying to re-create Minix, not Unix. From tiny acorns, mighty oaks grow. Before linux, gnu tar was very useful if you wanted to tar up a directory on a PC running dos or windows. Lots of people compiled and installed tar (and grep, find, bash, and less) to use on sun workstations. Could you please whip up that new tar, when you have a chance? I'd like to see command line switches for encryption, and a command line switch for running in tar-1.12 compatibility mode so amanda won't choke on it. Oh, and write .po files in thirteen languages and port it to: alpha-dec-winnt3.5 m68k-cbm-sysv4 m68k-cbm-netbsd m68k-unknown-openbsd mips64el-unknown-openbsd mipsel-unknown-openbsd mips-unknown-openbsd mipsel-unknown-openbsd mips-unknown-openbsd mipsel-unknown-openbsd arm-acorn-riscix arm-unknown-netbsd hppa1.1-hitachi-hiuxmpp pyramid-pyramid-sysv3 pyramid-pyramid-bsd pyramid-pyramid-svr4 sparc-hal-solaris2 sparc-sun-solaris2 i386-pc-solaris2 sparc-sun-solaris3 sparc-sun-sunos m68k-sun-sunos m68k-sun-sunos sparc-sun-sunos sparc-auspex-sunos m68k-atari-netbsd m68k-unknown-openbsd m68k-atari-mint m68k-atari-mint m68k-atari-mint m68k-milan-mint m68k-hades-mint m68k-unknown-mint m68k-sun-netbsd m68k-unknown-openbsd m68k-apple-netbsd m68k-unknown-openbsd m68k-unknown-openbsd m88k-unknown-openbsd powerpc-apple-machten powerpc-apple-netbsd mips-dec-mach_bsd4.3 mips-dec-ultrix vax-dec-ultrix clipper-intergraph-clix mips-mips-riscos%ssysv mips-mips-riscos%ssvr4 mips-mips-riscos%sbsd mips-mips-riscos powerpc-harris-powerunix m88k-harris-cxux7 m88k-motorola-sysv4 m88k-motorola-sysv3 m88k-dg-dgux m88k-dg-dguxbcs i586-dg-dgux m88k-dolphin-sysv3 m88k-motorola-sysv3 m88k-tektronix-sysv3 m68k-tektronix-bsd mips-sgi-irix romp-ibm-aix i386-ibm-aix powerpc-ibm-aix3.2.5 rs6000-ibm-aix3.2.5 rs6000-ibm-aix3.2.4 rs6000-ibm-aix3.2 rs6000-ibm-aix romp-ibm-bsd4.4 romp-ibm-bsd rs6000-bull-bosx m68k-bull-sysv3 m68k-hp-bsd m68k-hp-bsd4.4 m68k-hitachi-hiuxwe2 hppa1.1-hp-bsd hppa1.0-hp-bsd hppa1.0-hp-mpeix hppa1.1-hp-osf hppa1.0-hp-osf hppa1.1-hp-lites c1-convex-bsd c32-convex-bsd c2-convex-bsd c34-convex-bsd c38-convex-bsd c4-convex-bsd xmp-cray-unicos ymp-cray-unicos t90-cray-unicos t3e-cray-unicosmk cray2-cray-unicos f301-fujitsu-uxpv m68k-hp-netbsd m68k-unknown-openbsd sparc-unknown-bsdi powerpcle-unknown-cygwin powerpcle-unknown-solaris2 i?86linux-pc-linux-gnuaout i?86coff-pc-linux-gnucoff sparclinux-unknown-linux-gnuaout armlinux-unknown-linux-gnuaout m68klinux-unknown-linux-gnuaout powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu :-) Chris ______________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group - http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements-http://lists.phillylinux.org/mail/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mail/listinfo/plug
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