From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 6 21: 3:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0530E37B401 for ; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 21:03:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from sabre.velocet.net (sabre.velocet.net [216.138.209.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D06A43E42 for ; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 21:03:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dgilbert@velocet.ca) Received: from trooper.velocet.ca (trooper.velocet.net [216.138.242.2]) by sabre.velocet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 046BA1380C7; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 00:03:26 -0500 (EST) Received: by trooper.velocet.ca (Postfix, from userid 66) id C39417469E; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 00:03:10 -0500 (EST) Received: by canoe.velocet.net (Postfix, from userid 101) id D0263567650; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 22:39:29 -0500 (EST) From: David Gilbert MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15817.57457.767653.27721@canoe.velocet.net> Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 22:39:29 -0500 To: "M. Warner Losh" Cc: setantae@submonkey.net, saper@system.pl, kris@obsecurity.org, FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: [current] Re: What is user uucp good for? In-Reply-To: <20021106.042338.110621747.imp@bsdimp.com> References: <20021103032757.GA14982@xor.obsecurity.org> <20021105205749.GA70604@barbera.system.pl> <20021105220926.GB6129@submonkey.net> <20021106.042338.110621747.imp@bsdimp.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.07 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "M" == M Warner Losh writes: M> In message: <20021105220926.GB6129@submonkey.net> Ceri Davies M> writes: : For that matter, do we still M> need xten, a user who has been pushed so far : to the edge of M> obscurity that it's home directory doesn't even exist on a : M> freshly installed system (and I'm not talking about /nonexistent). M> For a long time I was a devender of xten, but my hardware is dead, M> and the original author, who is my boss, wouldn't morn the passing M> of it at all... Add to that: recent x10 hardware that I've bought has worked with standard serial w/o special x10 drivers. Simple python (or perl) scripts reading the serial port are sufficient to talk to it. IIRC, the x10 computer interface was $19.95 or so. That might have included shipping. It's even fully bidirectional. Dave. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Velocet Communications. | Two things can only be | |Mail: dgilbert@velocet.net | equal if and only if they | |http://daveg.ca | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message