Old UNIX utils

>>> I saw a lightning talk on Tursday by one of the maintainers of >>> SmartOS, a fork of Illumos, itself a fork of OpenSolaris. He recently >>> discovered that there were some interesting things in /usr/bin that >>> most people don't realize are there, that had stowed away unnoticed >>> over the years: bfs and ta. He demoed them for us, >> >> Wow! bfs can handle files up to 1024 Kbytes, and up to 512 characters >> per line! Amazing! >> >>> and I have to say I'm sort-of shocked that they never got rm(1)ed. >> >> Sun (now Oracle) is slow to remove things because customers might >> actually be using them. >> > > And since Oracle has no idea what customers might actually be using, it's > an amazing thought they'd care, or at least be benignly uncaring. Should > we consider this a win? :-)