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Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 02:07:16 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Grep
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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

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