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Date:	Wed, 22 May 2002 12:24:35 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Nicholas Wourms <nwourms AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject:	Re: Adding col to cygutils.
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Charles,

I think it should be included, I've encountered a script or two which was
looking for this item.  I hope others agree and this doesn't get tabled
like the ksh93 packages (what ever happened to that anyway?).

Cheers,
Nicholas
--- Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu> wrote:
> Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 09:03:09AM -0700, dawillis dawillis wrote:
> > 
> >>Per the HOW-TO-CONTRIBUTE located in /usr/doc/cygutils-1.0.0, I have
> >>put together a tarball, patch and a changelog entry for cygutils to
> >>build col for use in CYGWIN.  The reason I have done so is that I am
> >>supporting some older shell scripts that make use of the command, and
> >>it was easier to port col to CYGWIN than to rewrite the scripts.  The
> >>cygutil package seemed to be the appropriate location since other BSD
> >>derived utilities, such as cal, are packaged there.  I hope these
> >>patches can be integrated quickly.
> > 
> > 
> > Why are you contributing to cygutils rather than cygwin itself?
> 
> Actually, Chris, I think col *does* belong in cygutils.  On linux, it is
> 
>   found in the util-linux package -- a random grab bag of lots of small 
> and useful, or small and not-so-useful, or small but 
> totally-cygwin-inappropriate programs.
> 
> We have a package where lots of random, small, and (hopefully) useful 
> programs can live -- cygutils.  (In fact, I was planning -- before real 
> life intervened -- to add col to cygutils eventually (given, of course, 
> cygwin-list approval (*))
> 
> So, **if** the mailing list agrees, then I will accept dawillis's port 
> of col.
> 
> (*) As I earlier agreed, I won't add new programs to the cygutils 
> package unless the list agrees that to do so would be a good idea.  We 
> don't want to recreate full.exe.
> 
> --Chuck
> 
> 
> 
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