Control: tags -1 = wontfix On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 08:05:05PM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > there is another base64 program that performs the same purpose as > base64 in coreutils: > http://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/base64/ [..] > A friend just installed it from FreeBSD ports, and says that that > base64 also works the way GNU base64 does if no arguments are > supplied, though the man page [0] isn't clear on that.
FreeBSD in the meantime switched to another implementation, and the options taken by the three implementations are so divergent that I think it is unreasonable to expect any of them to accept the other's. Untagging patch and tagging wontfix then, as I don't think its useful anymore.