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- From: syd@DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
- Subject: Re: Mutant weirdness
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.025442.3677@DSI.COM>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 02:54:42 GMT
- Article-I.D.: DSI.1992Aug27.025442.3677
- References: <1992Aug26.004358.15398@muddcs.claremont.edu>
- Reply-To: syd@DSI.COM
- Organization: Datacomp Systems, Inc. Huntingdon Valley, PA
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- irilyth@fenris.claremont.edu (Josh Smith) writes:
- > Mailbox is '/usr/mail/josh' with 0 messages [Elm revision: 70.30]
- >Both were on Snakes (H-PUX machines of some flavor), and I wondered if this
- >was a Snake thing, a ludicrously old version of elm, or what.
- No, its an HP version of Elm.
-
- >...and then I checked the man pages on one of the snakes, and found the
- >following:
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- > AUTHOR
- > elm was developed by Hewlett-Packard Company.
-
- >Is this true, or serious bogosity?
- Sort of true...
-
- Dave Taylor wrote Elm, first while a graduate student, and later while part of HP.
- The version of Elm HP releases was based on an internal release call Elm 2.0.
- It is about 4 years out of date from USENIX Elm.
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- Sydney S. Weinstein, CDP, CCP Elm Coordinator - Current 2.3PL11
- Datacomp Systems, Inc. Projected 2.4 Release: Oct 1,1992
- syd@DSI.COM or dsinc!syd Voice: (215) 947-9900, FAX: (215) 938-0235
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