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Re: Adding col to cygutils.


On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 09:03:09AM -0700, dawillis dawillis wrote:
>Per the HOW-TO-CONTRIBUTE located in /usr/doc/cygutils-1.0.0, I have
>put together a tarball, patch and a changelog entry for cygutils to
>build col for use in CYGWIN.  The reason I have done so is that I am
>supporting some older shell scripts that make use of the command, and
>it was easier to port col to CYGWIN than to rewrite the scripts.  The
>cygutil package seemed to be the appropriate location since other BSD
>derived utilities, such as cal, are packaged there.  I hope these
>patches can be integrated quickly.

Why are you contributing to cygutils rather than cygwin itself?

>I would have attached the tarball and patch, but currently the mailing
>list will not accept attachments over 100,000 bytes.  Here's the
>warning message:
>
>ezmlm-reject: fatal: Sorry, I don't accept messages larger than 100000
>bytes (#5.2.3)

Well, of course.  Why would you want to send a large attachment to
the thousands of people reading this list?

cgf

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