From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jun 26 10:13:51 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA01320 for chat-outgoing; Thu, 26 Jun 1997 10:13:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA01315 for ; Thu, 26 Jun 1997 10:13:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA07901; Thu, 26 Jun 1997 10:00:17 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199706261700.KAA07901@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: BSD io To: jamie@itribe.net (Jamie Bowden) Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 10:00:17 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, chat@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199706261701.NAA05501@gatekeeper.itribe.net> from "Jamie Bowden" at Jun 26, 97 01:02:31 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > It's not the same thing at all. Mine was commercial, and it was > > the top rated communications program for UNIX systems (beating > > out even UUCP) for four years in a row. It was also the first > > shrink-wrapped psoftware ever sold for UNIX systems. It could > > also emulate a VT100 well enough to run EDT or LSE, with you > > sitting at a Hazeltine, Televideo, Wyse, IBM 3101, or other > > not-at-all-DEC-compatible terminal. And vice versa. > > I'm curious, what was this software, and did you port it to FreeBSD yet? "TERM Communications Software, from Century Software, Inc." And ever since I went to Novell (I've since left them as well) to hack UNIX kernels, I haven't had access to the source code (it's not mine to port). So unless Wes did the job while he was the developement manager there, it probably has not been ported. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.