Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 09:13:19 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>, Peter Hawkins <peter@hilink.com.au>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: CVSROOT avail Message-ID: <11986.892829599@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 17 Apr 1998 12:15:07 %2B0200." <199804171015.MAA14986@greenpeace.grondar.za>
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> <ridiculous> > The chap I want to meet can whistle modem tones and do mental arithmetic > well enough to log onto his local ISP and send PGP-encrypted MIME email > using an ordinary telephone handset. > </ridiculous> For similar degree of silliness, try telneting to localhost at port 6000 if you're running an X server and see if you can dialog with the server *just* by typing characters at the keyboard (usage of meta or compose key is allowed). I once fooled around with this back in the early days of X, using a copy of the X11 protocol spec and a calculator for specifying the integer constants in the right byte order, and managed to create a window, allocate a GC and draw a line before I returned to my senses and wondered why I was wasting my time with such silly pursuits. :-) Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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