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From: karish@denali.stanford.edu (Chuck Karish)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: grep replacement
Summary: If that's the way you feel about it ...
Message-ID: <22651@labrea.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 17 Jun 88 17:50:43 GMT
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Reply-To: karish@denali.stanford.edu (Chuck Karish)
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In article <7990@alice.UUCP> andrew@alice.UUCP writes:

>i am not proposing that the world uses a diff without context;
>just our world. it is rarely used in our center and we don't use patch.
>and despite large address spaces and huge machines, we still believe
>in trying to eliminate crud that is essentially never used. crud that is
>not paged in is still crud. just remember, i am not trying to make you use
>our (contextless) diff.

Oh.

From the tone of your previous postings, and because of some of the names
you dropped in them, I was under the impression that you were writing
a full-function replacement for grep.  That assumption seems to have carried
over to the discussion of diff.
If you want to hack at important utilities, go ahead.  Just keep them
at your site, or call them by a distinctive name.  You've seen a preview
of what the response will be if diff is shipped out in the form you describe.


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