So sprach [EMAIL PROTECTED] am Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 02:26:12PM +0200:
> Why does GNU tail does not support the -b option?
> -b is in the standard and the fact that GNU tar is
tail or tar? What should -b do?
> There already was a discussion whether GNUtar should be relpaced by star
> because star is written much cleaner. The demand from FSF failed because
> FSF had illegal demands in the Copyright of star.
Don't know - is star not released under GPL?
> I wrote everal time in the GNU tar discussion, that I _did_ write bug reports
> to the GNU tar maintainer in 1994 & 1995 and nothing happened!
Yes, I read this and was aware of this - but still, why should I write a
patch to GNU tar if I'm happy with GNU tar?
> >Okay, but he used /bin/bash, didn't he? With this approach, it is very much
> >portable, as /bin/bash is not the default shell. So both mine and your
> >remarks are exaggerated.
>
> But there is no guarantee that there is a /bin/bash. /bin/sh os present on al
> UNIX flavors and I cannot believe that the scripts cannot be made working for
> /bin/sh. ... of course you need to know what sh officially supports as Linux
> unfortunately links /bin/sh to /bin/bash.
*URGS* Why "unfortunately"? Just because it uses a *MUCH* nicer shell than
sh doesn't mean it's "unfortunate". And IIRC, sh cannot be included because
of Copyright reasons.
Alexander Skwar
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