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Re: banner
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Eric Blake |
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Re: banner |
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Wed, 27 Jul 2005 20:24:00 -0600 |
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According to Francky.Leyn <AT> telenet.be on 7/27/2005 9:37 AM:
>>Could you say a few words about why this program benefit from being
>>included in coreutils?
>
> On our system the core utils are installed for all platforms. Because
> banner isn't part of the core utils it is simply not installed, making
> I have to install it myself or ask a system manager to additionally
> install banner.
The beauty of open source programs is that even if you don't have write
privileges in /bin and /usr/bin, you can always create your own $HOME/bin,
and compile (or find a precompiled version) and install banner there
yourself, and update your $PATH to find it. In your case, that is
probably faster than waiting for coreutils to decide whether to include
such an app, then waiting for the next coreutils release.
- --
Life is short - so eat dessert first!
Eric Blake address@hidden
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- banner, Francky . Leyn, 2005/07/27