Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!lsuc!ecicrl!ecijmm!jmm
From: jmm@ecijmm.UUCP (John Macdonald)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: C news vs B news speed
Message-ID: <297@ecijmm.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jul 89 04:11:00 GMT
References: <1989Jul12.210254.8631@utzoo.uucp> <1018@cniysc.cinnet.COM>
Reply-To: jmm@ecijmm.UUCP (John Macdonald)
Organization: R. H. Lathwell Associates, Elegant Communications, Inc.
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In article <1018@cniysc.cinnet.COM> yun@cinnet.COM (Yun-seng Chao) writes:
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|Uh, wasn't there something called "bdf" posted last year that was able to
|parse the Sys V "df" command?  Why not use some of that code for usg
|systems to do some of this parsing (with acknowledgements to the original
|author, of course)?

"bdf" was a perl program that converted Sys V df output into a format
similar to Berkely df.  I kind of doubt that Henry and Geoff would want
to include perl as a pre-requisite for C news.
-- 
John Macdonald