Re: [dev] GSoC 2010

Anselm R Garbe dixit (2010-03-03, 18:55):

> On 3 March 2010 18:33, Chris Palmer <chris_AT_noncombatant.org> wrote:
> > Kurt H Maier writes:
> >
> >> > We need a desktop text indexing system that sucks less.
> >>
> >> grep
> >
> > First of all, I had never heard of this program. It is so great! Wow! Thanks
> > for the suggestion! In 45 minutes when my query has completed, I'll buy you
> > a beer. I assume you prefer Coors Lite?
> >
> > Second, the newly-discovered grep program is horrible bloatware. 78KB on my
> > system (the stali version will be larger due to static linking), when a
> > simple awk script would suffice for the same purpose? Man, the people
> > writing this new bleeding-edge software sure have no conception of the
> > beauty of simplicity that reigned in the old days.
>
> Stali's grep is smaller than your bloated 78kb dynamic executable, see
> attached. It's 63kb actually and runs on all x86 linux platforms.

Cool, seems like it's got secret netcat functionality built in:

$ strings /tmp/grep | /tmp/grep -i network
Machine is not on the network
Name not unique on network
Network is down
Network is unreachable
Network dropped connection on reset

and valuable Xenix support:

Not a XENIX named type file
No XENIX semaphores available

:)

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