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Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 16:46:00 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] TERM=cygwin missing in the output of dircolors from fileutils-4.1-1
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On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 04:38:26PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>This is primarily addressed to Chris Faylor (as the fileutils maintainer).
>I've submitted a patch that includes TERM=cygwin in the dircolors output
>back in October 2002 (<http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-10/msg00918.html>).
>This seems to have been slipped through the cracks.
>
>I'm aware that we are on the latest version of GNU fileutils, but, as the
>patch is specific to Cygwin, would this make it worthwhile to release
>fileutils-4.1-2?  I haven't seen any complaints about it lately, though,
>so no rush, I guess...

I'd appreciate it if you would submit this patch to the upstream maintainer.

I think that the plan is to get rid of fileutils in favor of a "coreutils",
though.  I haven't seen a coreutils release yet.

cgf

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