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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
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