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- From: richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: AT&T Long Distance Boycott (was: BNR2SS, Mach, and The Lawsuit)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.134824.5149@pegasus.com>
- Date: 8 Sep 92 13:48:24 GMT
- References: <1992Sep06.065525.8475@kithrup.COM> <2R1JJPG@taronga.com> <1992Sep07.101851.2123@kithrup.COM>
- Organization: Pegasus, Honolulu
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- >>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.
- >
-
- A good example of the problem that half a standard (POSIX) creates! Take
- a look at just about any of the larger products that have crossed over
- from the DOS world. They all use their own incompatible version of a
- termcap-like library.
-
- A sad situation.
-
-
- --
- Richard Foulk richard@pegasus.com
-