Paul Jakma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 14 Dec 2007, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > > As an example, you might check for "compare". This is a program I > > maintain since 1984 that is similar to "cmp(1)". > > I'm confused: Why not just submit patches to make cmp faster? Why the > need for a functionally-similar (identical?) but new utility?
Looks like you are missing the fact that cmp sources have not been available when compare has been created. Also note that the "compare -a" output is better readable than the one from cmp. For this reason, compare is used on a dayly base, something that does not apply to e.g. imagemagic. Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] (uni) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org