home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
/ EnigmA Amiga Run 1997 July / EnigmA AMIGA RUN 20 (1997)(G.R. Edizioni)(IT)[!][issue 1997-07 & 08][EAR-CD IV].iso / lightwave / cgplwlist / cgplw03751-04000.txt / 000077_drakon@shell.portal.com_Thu Mar 23 21:34:07 PST 1995.msg < prev    next >
Text File  |  1995-04-09  |  2KB  |  38 lines
  1. Article: 3829 of comp.graphics.packages.lightwave
  2. Xref: netcom.com comp.graphics.packages.lightwave:3829
  3. Path: netcom.com!ix.netcom.com!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!svc.portal.com!shell.portal.com!jobe.shell.portal.com!drakon
  4. From: drakon@shell.portal.com (Harry Benjamin Gibson)
  5. Newsgroups: comp.graphics.packages.lightwave
  6. Subject: Re: LWPro Diskettes...script conversion etc.
  7. Date: 21 Mar 1995 16:46:47 GMT
  8. Organization: Portal Communications Company -- 408/973-9111 (voice) 408/973-8091 (data)
  9. Lines: 22
  10. Message-ID: <3kmvtn$im1@news1.shell>
  11. References: <3kafcq$kv4@ixnews4.ix.netcom.com> <3kbj29$5ns@ixnews4.ix.netcom.com> <jgrossD5o5pF.Mqo@netcom.com> <3kkho3$cc@news1.shell> <3kkm85$7c4@beta.inc.net>
  12. NNTP-Posting-Host: jobe.shell.portal.com
  13. X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]
  14.  
  15. John Foust (syndesis@beta.inc.net) wrote:
  16. : In article <3kkho3$cc@news1.shell>, drakon@shell.portal.com (Harry Benjamin Gibson) says:
  17.  
  18. : >Why doesn't someone hunt down William Hawes, the author of Arexx, and ask very
  19. : >politely for him to port Arexx to SGI and Win NT? Could this be that hard a port
  20. : >to make? Or if he is unwilling to do so himself, sell the source code to some 
  21. : >enterprising lunatic?
  22.  
  23. : I talked with him a few weeks ago, when I posed this opportunity
  24. : to him, he didn't seem interested.
  25.  
  26. : What makes you think he's interested in porting endless lines
  27. : of Amiga-ish 68000 code over to the PC?  
  28.  
  29. If he ain't interested in doing it himself, is he interested in allowing
  30. someone else to do it and pay him a percentage of the royalties?
  31.  
  32. I could threaten to send my Garth Brooks CD if he doesn't, but that would be
  33. wrong.
  34.  
  35. Ben Gibson
  36.  
  37.  
  38.