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Greg Earle earle at smeagol.UUCP
Thu Jan 30 08:56:33 AEST 1986


> 4.3BSD will come with a program called `indent', which is a rewrite
> of James Gosling's rewrite of the program from the University of
> Illinois.  The program has an amazing number of options to control
> its output (48, to be exact, though one of those is not output
> control); default plus two options and it emits `Joy normal form'
> code (4.2/4.3 kernel style).

My Sun-2 running 4.2 has indent(1).  I counted 13 total command line
options (some of which are either/or, however).  Is the 4.3 version the
same program, only a newer superset?  Is indent(1) in normal 4.2BSD
distributions?  In other words, do we have it because J.G. is now with Sun?

> In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 4251)
> UUCP:	seismo!umcp-cs!chris
> CSNet:	chris at umcp-cs		ARPA:	chris at mimsy.umd.edu

	Greg Earle
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