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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Path: sparky!uunet!kithrup!sef
- From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
- Subject: Re: AT&T Long Distance Boycott (was: BNR2SS, Mach, and The Lawsuit)
- Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd.
- Date: Mon, 07 Sep 1992 10:18:51 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Sep07.101851.2123@kithrup.COM>
- References: <QG0JYC1@taronga.com> <1992Sep06.065525.8475@kithrup.COM> <2R1JJPG@taronga.com>
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- In article <2R1JJPG@taronga.com> peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
- >That makes perfect sense, since they're hackerware. All they do is file
- >translation, and the only OS services they need are reading and writing
- >files.
-
- *sigh*
-
- Fine.
-
- trn (without networking) compiles without anything other than what is given
- in POSIX (if you throw in a termcap library, which can easily be provided
- with it and considered "part of the application"). And, last time I
- checked, trn was an application, even more so than a compiler and whatnot
- are.
-
- --
- Sean Eric Fagan | "You can't get lost in one room, no matter how
- sef@kithrup.COM | little effort you make to learn your way around."
- -----------------+ -- William E Davidsen (william@crd.GE.COM)
- Any opinions expressed are my own, and generally unpopular with others.
-