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dash dash?
- From: "Nellis, Kenneth" <Kenneth dot Nellis at acs-inc dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 08:21:44 -0500
- Subject: dash dash?
Attempting to do some housecleaning and uninstall packages
I no longer use, I attempted to uninstall dash, but Setup
informs me that it is required by rebase. Wouldn't bash or
the Bourne shell be a more appropriate choice? Sure, dash
is smaller than either, but efficiency isn't critical for
an application such as rebase.
I then ran "man dash" and found two places in the man page
that use the Unicode MATHEMATICAL LEFT/RIGHT ANGLE BRACKET
(U+27E8/27E9) symbols. These symbols probably don't render
properly on most folk's systems, so IMHO are a poor choice
of symbols to use in a man page. In an example, it shows:
lf foobar âreturnâ
--Ken Nellis