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Original author of GNU find?


From: James Youngman
Subject: Original author of GNU find?
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 21:01:42 +0100
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Can anybody remember the identity of the original author of GNU find?
I'm not talking about "locate", I'm talking about "find".  The AUTHORS
file from findutils (which I have updated in CVS) says :-


> AUTHORS of findutils
> 
> I do not know the name of the original author of the findutils package.
> 
> Here are the names of some authors culled from ChangeLog and
> miscellaneous other files.
> 
> The locate program and its helper programs are derived (heavily
> modified) from James Woods' public domain fast-find code, which is
> also distributed with the 4.3BSD find.
> 
> Eric B. Decker
> David J. MacKenzie
> Jim Meyering
> Tim Wood
> Kevin Dalley <address@hidden>
> Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> James Youngman <address@hidden>
> 
> 
> The current maintainer of the findutils package is James Youngman.
> Questions about findutils should be addressed to the mailing list,
> <address@hidden> which, contrary to the impression given by its
> name, is used for general discussion of the findutils package.
> 




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