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| From: | Paul Jarc |
| Subject: | Re: diffutils 2.8.1 ISO C90 compliance patch |
| Date: | Wed, 15 Nov 2006 02:16:09 -0500 |
| User-agent: | Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) |
"Paul Edwards" <address@hidden> wrote: > There is no reason to make text processing programs require > Posix. Sure there is. POSIX facilities can make some text processing jobs significantly easier. If that isn't *enough* reason for you personally, you're free to write your own program that doesn't require POSIX. But no one else is under any obligation to do it for you. paul
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