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- 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: Tue, 08 Sep 1992 08:54:37 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Sep08.085437.419@kithrup.COM>
- References: <2R1JJPG@taronga.com> <1992Sep07.101851.2123@kithrup.COM> <QA2J6LM@taronga.com>
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- In article <QA2J6LM@taronga.com> peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
- >Sorry, if you have to provide your own termcap you're back where you started:
-
- Sorry, if you have to provide your own main() your language is useless.
-
- Sorry, if you have to provide your own fp-to-base-37 routines your language
- is useless.
-
- Sorry, if you have to provide your own custom IO routines, your language is
- useless.
-
- Etc.
-
- The termcap library is *SMALL*. It's better if it's on every system, but
- it's small enough that it can be provided as part of your application and
- not be terribly visible. Emacs does that, or did at one point (although
- emacs is not something I like using as an example).
-
- >(You forgot that TRN needs a working bourne shell for Pnews and Rnmail, and
- >Pnews and Rnmail need a sendmail/rmail compatible mail program... better
- >add smail and one of the sh clones to this trn package, then you need to
- >add all the stuff that *they* need. By itself 1003.1 is pointless.)
-
- 1. Pnews and Rnmail work quite well with 1003.2 utilities. Or did you
- forget that the POSIX system is a *SYSTEM* -- in general, most programs will
- deal with .1 and .2 and be reasonably complete.
-
- 2. Pnews can easily be incorporated into *rn. No real reason it's not,
- except that it can be customized without recompiling the sources.
-
- 3. As for mail, tell you what, Peter: why don't you come up with a mail
- system (reader, sender, interface, system-to-system interface, file format,
- filesystem layout, etc.) that can work on all systems, and then I'll add the
- code to t?rn to support that.
-
- --
- 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.
-