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|    Gerrit Kuehn to Maurice Kinal    |
|    much change yet still the same ... sort     |
|    25 Aug 22 17:38:54    |
      MSGID: 2:240/12 6251c212       TZUTC: 0200       REPLY: 1:153/7001.2989 6306e0b0       CHRS: LATIN-1 2       TID: hpt/fbsd 1.9 2021-12-02       Hello Maurice!              25 Aug 22 02:38, Maurice Kinal wrote to Gerrit Kuehn:               GK>> -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 1959392 6 Apr. 09:30 /lib/libc.so.7               MK> What's your point? I see no output that would lead me to believe         MK> that /lib/libc.so.7 is worthy of running on any machine here whereas         MK> the output of /lib/libc.so.6 tells much of what is under the hood ...         MK> and it is the good stuff. Definetly GNU.              My point would be that nothing should be flagged executable that doesn't need       to be executable.               GK>> HISTORY        GK>> An awk utility appeared in Version´+¢7 AT&T UNIX.               MK> That was a long time ago. I am betting it preceded both mawk and         MK> gawk.              Probably.               GK>> So why bother about GNU residues at all? ;-)               MK> I favour them and they've been good to me over the years, including         MK> gawk. I've never used, nor ever seen, AT&T UNIX's awk. How about         MK> you?              Nah, I'm not /that/ old. ;-)              However, FreeBSD comes with nawk. gawk just doesn't feature the proper       license, I guess...              https://github.com/onetrueawk/awk              ---       This is the One True version of awk described in "The AWK Programming Language"       by Al Aho, Brian Kernighan, and Peter Weinberger       (Addison-Wesley, 1988, ISBN 0-201-07981-X).       ---                     Regards,       Gerrit              ... 5:38PM up 155 days, 22:44, 8 users, load averages: 0.59, 0.80, 0.84              --- msged/fbsd 6.3 2021-12-02        * Origin: Ideas of lust and dying (2:240/12)       SEEN-BY: 1/19 123 15/0 16/0 19/10 37 90/1 105/81 106/201 114/709 120/340       SEEN-BY: 123/130 131 129/305 331 153/7715 203/0 218/700 221/1 6 242       SEEN-BY: 221/360 227/114 229/111 112 113 206 275 317 400 424 426 428       SEEN-BY: 229/452 470 550 616 664 700 240/12 1120 1634 5832 8001 8002       SEEN-BY: 240/8005 266/512 280/464 5003 5006 282/1038 291/111 292/854       SEEN-BY: 301/1 113 812 303/0 313/41 317/3 320/119 219 319 322/0 757       SEEN-BY: 326/101 335/364 341/66 342/200 371/0 382/147 396/45 423/81       SEEN-BY: 460/58 530/204 633/280 712/848 2432/390 2452/250 3634/12       SEEN-BY: 5020/1042 5058/104       PATH: 240/12 1120 301/1 221/1 320/219 229/426           |
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