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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!agate!dog.ee.lbl.gov!porpoise!humu!pegasus!richard From: richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk) Subject: Re: AT&T Long Distance Boycott (was: BNR2SS, Mach, and The Lawsuit) Message-ID: <1992Sep8.134824.5149@pegasus.com> Organization: Pegasus, Honolulu References: <1992Sep06.065525.8475@kithrup.COM> <2R1JJPG@taronga.com> <1992Sep07.101851.2123@kithrup.COM> Date: Tue, 8 Sep 92 13:48:24 GMT Lines: 25 >>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