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Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 14:14:27 -0400
From: Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: Adding col to cygutils.
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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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