On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 2:52 PM, Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org> wrote:

Sorry; I wasn't accusing you.

no issues.

But yeah, had I known of prior work then I certainly would have used it
(with all due credit) instead of re-inventing that particular wheel.

same here. The UNIX community has always tended to do what they had to do and shared as they could and when they knew about it.