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to: MAURICE KINAL
from: NICHOLAS BOEL
date: 2016-04-08 18:22:00
subject: Re: something different

Hello Maurice,

On 08 Apr 16 22:32, Maurice Kinal wrote to Nicholas Boel:

 MK> Hey Nicholas!

 NB>> I'll definitely try to hit up some Archlinux maintainers and see
 NB>> if they would be willing to add it. It's worth a shot.

 MK> Speaking for myself, it only has to come in handy once to be worth it.
 MK> In this case with fold, it has come in handy more than once, the curl
 MK> line being the latest.  Also in the past I used it, as well as fmt, to
 MK> prewrap text output for old DOS abandonware apps although in that case
 MK> it worked fine without i18n patching simply because there were no
 MK> multibyte characters in those cases.  Still I like things to be up to
 MK> their full potential whether or not it ever gets used up to that
 MK> higher grade.

Apparantly the -2 version of that patch is flying around the LFS devs, and the
first Google hit tells me it's buggy. So if it's a fairly recent patch, I'll
wait a bit and see if it gets added.

 MK> Yes I am greedy.  I want it all.

Same here, but don't want to spend countless hours on a computer for stupid
reasons when they're easily avoidable. :)

Regards,
Nick

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