Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 02:07:16 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Grep Message-ID: <20001207020716.D13259@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <3A2F334A.219F7ADB@mbo-verlag.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.11i In-Reply-To: <3A2F334A.219F7ADB@mbo-verlag.de>; from westhues@mbo-verlag.de on Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 07:50:50AM +0100 On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 07:50:50AM +0100, Simon Westhues wrote: >Hi, > >why in there an old version 2.2 of grep included in cygwin? > >The latest GNU grep 2.4.2 compiled without problems in my cygwin. We like to annoy people by including older versions of tools. It causes the core developers no end of hilarity watching the poor hapless end users scratching their heads and wondering where the beloved features that they have come to rely on under linux have gone. tee, hee, hee. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com