Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 10:08:11 +0100 From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: Wolfgang Helbig <helbig@Informatik.BA-Stuttgart.DE> Cc: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, jmr@ugcs.caltech.edu, kevin_eliuk@sunshine.net, chris@bb.cc.wa.us Subject: Re: learn program Message-ID: <19980110100811.19817@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199801092051.VAA29829@rvc1.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de>; from Wolfgang Helbig on Fri, Jan 09, 1998 at 09:51:49PM %2B0100 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980109113551.21718A-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> <199801092051.VAA29829@rvc1.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de>
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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. ;-)
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