mjranum@gouldsd.UUCP (07/11/86)
Thank you all who have taken the time to respond to my earlier
postings. I have received several lists of goodies from various people,
and I am trying to contact them and actually get stuff on magnetic
media. I've also been having problems keeping track of addresses for
this project, so I may not have gotten back to some of you. If that's
the case, I apologise. Please, unless you've already heard from me, if
you have any nifty UNIX tools for IBM/Klone machines, drop me a line,
tell me what you have, and tell me if I can mail you a disk (disks ?)
and *where*. There has been some confusion since I get these lists of
"yeah, well, I have this, this, this, and this. thanks." If it is not
impertinent, why not give me your US snail address, and I'll get a floppy
to you. (yes, I'll cover postage)
Further clarification: 1) this is still the formative stage of
this operation. All I have in my hot and sweaty hands right now are as
follows: sed, grep, paste, join, rev, tee, cat, and other odds and ends.
I have been trying to get mail to some people who have promised me awk,
make, fgrep, and a few others. for now that looks to be the list, unless
I can get my version of "lint" working. :-)
2) I'm not really done assembling all
this yet, and expect I never will be, but any of you who want this stuff
(except you out there who are "prime contributors") are gonna have to
mail me a diskette or two or three. I am not going to pay your postage.
unless I specifically contact you along the lines of "uh, can I mail you
a disk" don't expect me to foot the bill. if I mail disks to everyone on
the net, I'll be awfully poor very fast.
3) due to copyright laws, and since I
can't bne sure of the origins of all this material, source will not be
included. period. I am not a cleainghouse for pirate software. further,
to forestall any flamage from righteous rectal-compatibles: "assume that
the names listed in this article are referring not to AT&T copyrighted
materials, but to public-domain implementations of the same. the AT&T
copyright names grep, awk, etc, are simply used for convenience." if
you don't like that, esse mien lederhosen.
4) due to stupidity on my part, I *have*
lost the addresses of some of you. (like the fellow who sent me a "cal"
and a "uudecode") I'm sorry, but that's why I haven't gotten back to
you (most gould employees are smart: I'm the token integrator) If you
have sent me mail, and recieved only silence: please contact me again,
and provide me with a usenet address.
so, that's that. bombard me with disks. if you have something you're
*SURE* i'll want and don't have, mail it to me, and I'll cover your return
postage, and give you what I have. (honest - I'm a nice guy) but I
won't cover your postage if all you want is toys. if you want a copy of
my current working set, mail me a disk, with enough stamps or bux to
cover postage, and I'll load it and send it back. better send several
(about 3) to be sure. right now I have a disk's worth, but that may
change. if you don't want to just jump in and risk 4$ (2$ for disks, 2$
for postage) drop me a line on the net, and we'll chat.
{decuac|sundc} gouldsd!mjranum (yeah, we're kinda new)
Marcus James Ranum
6335 64th Ave, apt #1
Riverdale, MD 20737
(301)699-0386 (only call at 6:00PM md time)
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*All opinions expressed aren't even mine, let alone those of Gould, Inc.*