To:	dj AT stealth DOT ctron DOT com (DJ Delorie)
Cc:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject:	Re: where is the difinitive sh-util//fileutils?
Date:	Sat, 5 Nov 1994 08:19:38 PST
From:	"Marty Leisner" <leisner AT sdsp DOT mc DOT xerox DOT com>

In message <9411042210 DOT AA23327 AT delorie>you write:
>
>I've got a port of the fileutils (and many other gnu packages) in the
>GNU cd-rom; I'll send them my patches and then they'll be official,
>and then (hopefully) anyone will be able to build them.
>
>DJ
>

Well, Jim Meyering  is releasing new fileutils/shellutils this weekend...

I'm not sure why you need to change any source...I was able to compile
useful utitities (i.e. not things like mknod, ln) by:
	1) changing the makefiles
	2) adding open.S to the lib, and changing the default open to binary

I also know backups on 8+3 file names is a problem, I have to look at
this...

marty

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