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Re: GNU readline and BSD license

Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk>

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From: Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk>
To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2000-12-23T19:42:43Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 08:42:43AM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> 
> FreeBSD has a freely available library called 'libedit' that could
> be shipped with postgresql, it's under the BSD license.
> 
> If you have access to a FreeBSD box see the editline(3) manpage,
> or go to: 
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=editline&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+4.2-RELEASE&format=html

Good plan - AFAIK there isn't anything gnu readline can do that libedit can't..

Patrick