avgroeni@cs.ruu.nl (Annius Groenink) (02/28/91)
(to be skipped by more-than-average-programmers)
THE COOKIE JAR
The cookie jar is a kind of environment that has been implemented in TOS starting at 1.6.
It contains pairs of longwords, one of which is the cookie identifier (to be read out in
decimal ASCII), the other any kind of data related to the identifier.
IT'S A MISUNDERSTANDING people with low TOSes should not be interested in the jar. It's
in fact very easy to install a cookie jar in old TOSes. If desired, I could write (and post) a short
auto folder executable that installs a cookie jar, and remains active till the next
COLD boot (installing the system cookies at every warm boot).
And now for something completely different:
I REQUEST ANYBODY WHO HAS EVER DEFINED ONE or MORE COOKIES TO SEND THEM TO ME,
for at least I think there's great need of some document containing the definition of as much
cookies as possible. This would very much increase the use of the cookie jar. Please send short
messages containing simple, clear and understandable information about your cookies. When I think
I've collected enough, I will post the first version of my cookie definition list.
I'll also add (after a scientific examination) a chapter on cookie psychology (in which I'm
also VERY interested)
Annius Groenink
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Annius Groenink | AVGROENI@CS.RUU.NL |
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Annius Groenink|undergraduate student
De Mamuchetweg 5|maths/computer science at the
3732 AK De Bilt|University of Utrecht, Holland.
The Netherlands|[from Sep91 I'll be in Leeds, UK.