On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 09:20:22AM -0500, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> 
> Perhaps he feels that important functionality is missing.
> 
> Brian, could you explain why jot doesn't do enough for you? Maybe the
> right thing is to add a flag to it or some such...
> 

Hmm, in some ways jot does too much!  The command line syntax is
different.  I think for this reason alone it is probably easier to
have a different command.  Now, I suppose that seq could be a shell
script wrapper around jot.  Some additional functionality would
need to be added to jot; the equal width option.  Still this would
be even less bug for bug compatible with other existing implementations
of seq.  I wrote the current C version before I knew about jot.

There are 3rd party tools/scripts that expect seq not jot.

--
Brian