From owner-cvs-all Fri Apr 17 09:15:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA20871 for cvs-all-outgoing; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 09:15:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA20861 for ; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 16:15:39 GMT (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA11990; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 09:13:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) To: Mark Murray cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , Eivind Eklund , Peter Hawkins , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: CVSROOT avail In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 17 Apr 1998 12:15:07 +0200." <199804171015.MAA14986@greenpeace.grondar.za> Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 09:13:19 -0700 Message-ID: <11986.892829599@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > 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. > 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