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From: pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: C news vs B news speed
Message-ID: <440@mccc.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jul 89 17:44:39 GMT
References: <1989Jul12.210254.8631@utzoo.uucp> <1018@cniysc.cinnet.COM> <297@ecijmm.UUCP>
Reply-To: pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg)
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In article <297@ecijmm.UUCP> jmm@ecijmm.UUCP (John Macdonald) writes:
=In article <1018@cniysc.cinnet.COM> yun@cinnet.COM (Yun-seng Chao) writes:
=|
=|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

I just cat'd the bdf I have and it's a binary file.  I guess there must
be two bdf's.

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Pete Holsberg -- Mercer College -- Trenton, NJ 08690
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