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Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 12:27:31 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: [RFP] misc from cygutils
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On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 04:12:33AM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote:
>Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
>
>
>>>>>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).
>
>>
>>Then maybe 'cygutils' would be a good name?
>
>
>Urk...but I already used that name for my "world-famous" website. <g> 
>Wouldn't that lead to confusion?  Or would it actually be LESS confusing 
> for folks since 'cygutils' == me == the misc package (well, mostly)?
>
>
>>BTW, I want this package, I'm using 'dos2unix' a lot.
>
>That's three! Cool!  (But I still need to wait a few days in case the 
>all-powerful veto appears...)

Booming voice:

I am well pleased with this package.

I think it should be chuckutils, though...

cgf

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