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From: Rob Snow <rsnow@txdirect.net>
To: Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe <mitayai@dreaming.org>
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Subject: Re: linux emulation 
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On Sun, 3 Dec 1995, Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe wrote:

> On Sun, 3 Dec 1995 gpalmer@westhill.cdrom.com wrote:
> 
> > Date: Sun, 03 Dec 1995 13:43:20 -0800
> > From: gpalmer@westhill.cdrom.com
> > To: Craig Shrimpton <craigs@os.com>
> > Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> > Subject: Re: linux emulation 
> > 
> > Craig Shrimpton wrote in message ID
> > <199512032043.PAA02007@solar.os.com>:
> >  
> > > Why would anyone want to "emulate" Linux?  I simply grab the sources of my
> > > favorite apps and re-compile for BSD.
> > 
> > I'd love to see you do that for X Doom, for example :-)
> > 
> > Gary
> > 
> 
> or a million of other things ive grown to love, like suck (news package) :)
Actually, you could just get slurp. (archie for it)  It runs fine under 
FreeBSD.

A side note:  I believe slurp and suck both issue NEWNEWS commands to
the server which has LARGE impact on the server (at least INN).
I've gone to psl which is a perl slurp and it uses .newsrc type files
to retrieve news the same way your reader would (MUCH less overhead).

> -Mit
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>             Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe, mitayai@dreaming.org 
>                    http://www.dreaming.org/~mitayai    
>                        Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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