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From std-unix-request@uunet.uu.net Fri Sep 21 16:19:55 1990
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From: rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz)
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Subject: Re: Standards Update, IEEE 1003.2: Shell and tools
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Date: 21 Sep 90 18:29:24 GMT
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Submitted-by: rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz)
Reporting on 1003.2 (Shell and tools), in <503@usenix.org> Randall Howard writes:
>+ patch: This utility differs from many others; its origins are in
> the public domain rather than in a traditional UNIX variants. As
> a result, many people feel that patch is worthwhile, but not
> mature enough to standardize.
I find this sentence totally amazing.
Patch has been around far longer, and is much more worthwhile, than more than
80% of what 1003 has been doing ever since they expanded beyond dot one.
Can anyone from the committee who holds this viewpoint offer a reasonable
defense of it?
/r$
Volume-Number: Volume 21, Number 123