-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Francky.Leyn <AT> telenet.be on 7/27/2005 9:37 AM: >>Could you say a few words about why this program benefit from being >>included in coreutils? > > On our system the core utils are installed for all platforms. Because > banner isn't part of the core utils it is simply not installed, making > I have to install it myself or ask a system manager to additionally > install banner.
The beauty of open source programs is that even if you don't have write privileges in /bin and /usr/bin, you can always create your own $HOME/bin, and compile (or find a precompiled version) and install banner there yourself, and update your $PATH to find it. In your case, that is probably faster than waiting for coreutils to decide whether to include such an app, then waiting for the next coreutils release. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFC6EHA84KuGfSFAYARAsidAJ4hWCc0XpT1k9/3W/wYGplQ15WEAQCfXTEf Xo2pG6EARfqkQlWWvR9FpjI= =1TUC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils