>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Jun 17 14:45:42 2001
>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?
Of course tail. tail -b 4 shows the last 4 blocks.
>> 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?
They wanted to have Copyright FSF instead of Copyright J�rg Schilling.
This is illegal outside USA.
Here we are in problem with the english language.
Do you have an englich word that mets the meaning of "Urheberecht" ?
>> I wrote everal time in the GNU tar discussion, that I _did_ write bug rep=
>orts
>> 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?
I never requested you to write a patch for GNU tar! I requested the GNU tar
mainainer to fix GNU tar and failed.
>> /bin/sh. ... of course you need to know what sh officially supports as Li=
>nux
>> 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.
How should you write shell conformant scripts if you dont't have a shell that
is /bin/sh compliant?
There is no copyright issues. Other OS have a more shell compliant /bin/sh.
J�rg
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