strip FreeBSD a bit

Dag-ErlingSmørgrav des at des.no
Wed Sep 10 05:03:50 PDT 2003


Andreas Klemm <andreas at freebsd.org> writes:
> 2 or 3 years I installed a RedHat for testing ... well the
> basic installation didn't contain even "sed".

I very much doubt that, as sed(1) is required by POSIX.

> I even dislike that UUCP had to go into ports ... Now you don't
> have a standard tool in standard OS install like cu to connect
> to serial ports what need for job in the networking area.

When UUCP was removed, tip(1) was hacked to understand cu(1)'s
command-line syntax, so we still have cu(1).  I use it every day.

DES
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