On Sat, 1 Jun 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> You can say that POSIX will stop making gratuitious incompatibilities
> with features that are 25 years old and that the whole world depends on!
> Losing egrep is even worse than deprecating cp -r.  What are they
> thinking?  This is not moving forwards, they're taking giant steps backwards.

FWIW, I fully agree.  Breaking back-compatibility is a Bad Thing; it 
should not be done without a _very_ good reason.  And I see no such 
reason in this case.

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