From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Jan 10 01:22:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id BAA12426 for chat-outgoing; Sat, 10 Jan 1998 01:22:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id BAA12404 for ; Sat, 10 Jan 1998 01:22:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with UUCP id KAA22818; Sat, 10 Jan 1998 10:22:04 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.8/8.8.5) id KAA16359; Sat, 10 Jan 1998 10:08:12 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <19980110100811.19817@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 10:08:11 +0100 From: J Wunsch To: Wolfgang Helbig Cc: Annelise Anderson , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, jmr@ugcs.caltech.edu, kevin_eliuk@sunshine.net, chris@bb.cc.wa.us Subject: Re: learn program Reply-To: Joerg Wunsch References: <199801092051.VAA29829@rvc1.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88 In-Reply-To: <199801092051.VAA29829@rvc1.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de>; from Wolfgang Helbig on Fri, Jan 09, 1998 at 09:51:49PM +0100 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org As Wolfgang Helbig wrote: > Joerg, did you plan to put it in FreeBSD's base distribution? Yes, that was the intention. > Should we? Why not? :-) Because the texts are sometimes very far off from today's unix. The idea was to find a number of volunteers walking through the texts, and then eventually merge it into the main tree. This idea seems to not have worked. :( We've been assured that there are no legal problems in incorporating learn(1) into FreeBSD, so that's not the problem. Technically, i think the UI is at least usable, so that's neither the problem (albeit there were a few improvement ideas -- the UI basically stems from a time where `terminal' usually was a hardcopy printer). There's some stuff in the UI code i didn't look at yet, like i've seen there's a direct directory read function that cannot work any longer for UFS. I'm not sure it's referenced somewhere at all. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)