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From: bink@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu (Ubben Greg)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Does tail still need the 4K byte limit?
Summary: Questions about GNU in general
Keywords: GNU
Message-ID: <1200@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu>
Date: 6 May 89 05:13:53 GMT
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Reply-To: bink@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu (Greg Ubben)
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In article <298@rocky8.rockefeller.edu> David MacKenzie writes:
> The GNU tail and head utilities have already been written, by me and
> Paul Rubin.  They have not yet been generally distributed, but I would be
> happy to mail them to anyone who wants them.  They have no buffer size
> limits.  The GNU head is also much faster than the BSD one and can head
> in blocks or bytes as well as lines.

1.  Where is the best introduction to what GNU is all about, to be found,
    preferrably online?  (Don't try to explain here, just point me...)

2.  After spending many hundreds of hours working with certain commands,
    you really start to notice the problems the command has, and minor
    improvements (keeping in the spirit of the command's format) which
    would greatly increase its functionality.  I realize they're probably
    already aware of and and have fixed most of these short-comings, but...
    do the GNU programmers welcome suggestions, and if so, how does one
    find out who to contact for what (in particular, for sed)?

						-- Greg Ubben
						   bink@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu