From: Andreas Kähäri (akfreeshell.org)
Date: Wed Jul 23 2003 - 15:24:58 CDT

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On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 02:08:04PM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote:
> As some of you may have noticed, a few GNU programs got replaced in
> the last while and work is still on-going to make them better

Nice work.

>
> In particular, the following families of programs got replaced:
>
> gzip
> grep
> diff
>

I noticed when diff started to call most of my Swedish language
files "binary". I guess it's because they contain letter
outside the ASCII range, such as 'å', 'ä', and 'ö'. No big
worries though, I now just have to remeber to use the -a switch.

[cut]
>
> grep
> egrep
> fgrep
> zgrep
> zegrep
> zfgrep

These ought to be the same executable, oughn't they?

Andreas

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Andreas Kähäri
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