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From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: AT&T Long Distance Boycott (was: BNR2SS, Mach, and The Lawsuit)
Message-ID: <QA2J6LM@taronga.com>
Organization: Taronga Park BBS
References: <1992Sep06.065525.8475@kithrup.COM> <2R1JJPG@taronga.com> <1992Sep07.101851.2123@kithrup.COM>
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 18:36:49 GMT
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In article <1992Sep07.101851.2123@kithrup.COM> sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) writes:
>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").
Sorry, if you have to provide your own termcap you're back where you started:
otherwise you can simply ship a copy of 386BSD-under-VMS and say "it's part
of the application". The whole point to things like Termcap (and /usr/include
and other standard data files and facilities not part of POSIX.1) is that
they're there and they're standard and you DON'T have to reinvent them.
(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.)
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