Ok, I'll ask the obvious. Why is OpenBSD trying to maintain a list of IATA airport codes?
(And before you ask why not, try to think of some answers yourself first. I can come up with a few drawbacks, though I'm nowhere close to a subject expert.)
(And before you ask why not, try to think of some answers yourself first. I can come up with a few drawbacks, though I'm nowhere close to a subject expert.)
I guess it's just a "list of databases that was useful/fun to someone, at some point". Harder to "just get it from the internet" back in the 80s.
(Also available as "man ascii" from almost as long ago https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/blob/Researc... )
OpenBSD seems to like collecting extra items though
Its inclusion in 4.4BSD seems a mystery though. No other files on the 4.4BSD distribution seem to reference it. The atc(6) game involves airports, but it doesn't seem to actually open this file, both in 4.4BSD and in OpenBSD.
The previous release, 4.3BSD-Tahoe, did not have /usr/share
.. also: https://www.openbsd.org/events.html
Hackathons tentatively take place in airport lounges.
I'm reading "hackathons may occur in airports, therefore OpenBSD should maintain a list of all airport codes."
Suppose the list didn't already exist, how would you justify adding it?
It's just a bit of culture, don't worry about it so much.
I'm not familiar with BSD but when I was using Kali if I was using a share it was to feed into something else, classic example being wordlists fed into hydra[1] or something.
Alternatives are to scrape some other website (who presumably paid IATA for the data) or Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_airports_by_IATA_and_...) which may or may not be more complete/accurate than OpenBSD's own crowdsourced list.