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Re: Adding col to cygutils.
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 13:10:11 -0400
- Subject: Re: Adding col to cygutils.
- References: <20020522160309.16984.qmail@web20808.mail.yahoo.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
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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