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From:	"Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To:	"Charles Wilson" <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>, <cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: [RFP] misc from cygutils
Date:	Tue, 27 Nov 2001 20:51:44 +1100
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Wilson" <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
> So, three questions:
>
> 1) can I add misc to the official dist?

IMO, yes.

> 2) can anybody come up with a better name?  This package is intended
to
> be a grab-bag of simple utilities (each executable requires only a
> single source code file of moderate length).

Uhmm, not really :[. I don't think it's worth the effort to split the
tools out, and they dont' fit neatly into any one category...

BTW, it seems to me that dump == od, and [put|get]clip are somewhat
redundant.

> 3) Did I make the right decision w.r.t. the IPC tools?  Eventually
we'll
> have real, built-in IPC and those tools can then be distributed
without
> requiring cygipc...

IMO, yes. I'm sure there will be bug reports, but hey :}.

Rob

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