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- From: shendrix@PCS.CNU.EDU ("", Shannon Hendrix)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
- Subject: Re: Are we dead??
- Message-ID: <9211170724.AA17297@PCS.CNU.EDU>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 07:24:27 GMT
- References: <9211170517.AB17127@PCS.CNU.EDU>
- Sender: daemon@presto.ig.com
- Reply-To: "Coherent operating system" <COHERENT@indycms.bitnet>
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- >
- > > A nice flat-file database would be nice.
- > >
- > > A package to network with DOS bbs systems like WWIV, Celerity,
- > > FIDO, etc. would be nice.
- > >
- > > QuickMail packet support for a program like minicom or xcomm.
- > >
- > > Bimodem protocol for Coherent.
- >
- > Then right them. These are all relatively trivial. Recently posted to
- > alt.sources was a util to convert a downloaded QWKmail packet into Unix style
- > "news" so it could be read on a unix system. Frankly I want something that
- > goes in the other direction (a QWKmail packer to batch up News for users) but
- > it may be suitable for you.
-
- Me write them? I was answering someone who wanted ideas for some
- programs to write for Coherent. I've been working on the flat file manager
- idea but school slows it down. A friend of mine has a BBS so I could use
- him as a guinea pig for UNIX-DOSbbs software. He wants some stuff like
- that. But, for the most part, I'm not interested. I was just providing
- some ideas. Bimodem isn't trivial. Its a real bitch.
-
- >
- > > A sound card device driver and associated utils.
- > >
- > > A backup program (better than tar, dump, cpio) for the tape
- > > drives (when that is supported).
- >
- > These need the device driver kit or something written by MWC. I hope MWC get
- > moving with the device driver kit for 4.0 because then they'll get the
- > benefit of the rest of us writing new device drivers for them.
-
- Doug at MWC told me that the device driver kit is in BETA release and
- that there are soon to follow some very exiting news posted to
- comp.os.coherent. Hope he means new software and a new release of the
- operating system. Might even tear me away from Linux. Of course, I
- won't be able to play with the kernel but everything else will be there.
- >
- > - k
- > --
- > Craig Harding kilroy@acme.gen.nz ACME BBS +64 6 3551342
- > "Jub'er lbh pnyyvat n obmb?"
- >
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