From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Oct 29 09:41:08 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA11822 for ports-outgoing; Tue, 29 Oct 1996 09:41:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from ingenieria ([168.176.15.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA11816 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 1996 09:40:59 -0800 (PST) Received: by ingenieria (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id MAA18842; Tue, 29 Oct 1996 12:40:44 +0600 Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 12:40:43 +0600 (GMT) From: Pedro Giffuni To: J Wunsch cc: Chuck Robey , ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Spice package? In-Reply-To: <199610291543.QAA05341@uriah.heep.sax.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 29 Oct 1996, J Wunsch wrote: > As Chuck Robey wrote: >=20 >=20 > Is there any point in a spice 2 port now that we've got spice 3? > Not really, I mistyped, Spice 2G6 was written on FORTRAN and someone ran=20 f2c on it, it has a value as the last release in fortran and has no=20 exporting restrictions.=20 3E2 had a BSD deamon for remote use... 3F4 has an X interface, and is being distributed directly by Berkeley. I=20 am reading the README to see if I find exporting restrictions. 3F5 is restricted, a comercial unexportable product, it=B4 supposed to use= =20 "high" technology. =20 > (I've only used the latter, but saw references how many of the things > that are there now must have been missing in spice 2.) >=20 > --=20 > cheers, J"org >=20 > 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. ;-) >=20