Re: redundancy, and how to reduce it

[Paul Eggert]

> From: Andrew D Jewell <address@hidden>
> Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 19:38:34 -0400
> 
> Is this something of interest to the community as a whole?
> Should I work on changing some standard tools and submitting patches, 
> or should I shut the hell up?

I like the idea of simplifying things.  I suggest just doing one tool
at first and seeing how the feedback goes.

Maybe diffutils?  "diff --help" would be good exercise.  If you're
interested in diffutils I suggest the latest alpha version 2.8.4,
canonically at <ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/diffutils/> but that site is
down so you might try the mirror at
<ftp://linux-rep.fnal.gov/pub/mirrors/gnu/alpha/diffutils/>.