Ways and means - tool existence question.

2000-02-25 Thread Daniel Pittman
While working on the VC remote username code, I believe I have a solution. To know how general it is, however, I would like to know if there are any platforms out there that don't have the grep(1) and cut(1) tools installed. If there is any platform that does not have a user readable

Re: Ways and means - tool existence question.

2000-02-25 Thread Kai Großjohann
Daniel Pittman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: While working on the VC remote username code, I believe I have a solution. To know how general it is, however, I would like to know if there are any platforms out there that don't have the grep(1) and cut(1) tools installed. I'm not sure that the

Re: Ways and means - tool existence question.

2000-02-25 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 10 Oct 1999, Kai Großjohann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel Pittman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In my VC, the only place that actually calls (vc-user-login-name) with a uid is: (defun vc-file-owner (file) ;; Return who owns FILE (user name, as a string). So, rather than spend a

Re: Ways and means - tool existence question.

2000-02-25 Thread Kai Großjohann
Daniel Pittman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In my VC, the only place that actually calls (vc-user-login-name) with a uid is: (defun vc-file-owner (file) ;; Return who owns FILE (user name, as a string). So, rather than spend a lot of effort putting in a hack that will not work so well