venta@i2ack.UUCP (Paolo Ventafridda) (10/02/89)
I am looking for someone willing to test a "netlib"-like software on his machine, in order to fix problems before releasing the program in the PD. I already took care of SCO-Xenix (286-386) Sys V, Interactive 386, Microport 286, SCO-Unix, NCR Unix V.2 . I really need someone on BSD Unix, SUN O.S., HP-UX and others.. The program is called "RNAlib", it's 100% written in Bourne-shell, and it is quite easy to install. Problems may appear for side-effects results of unix commands like "file", "grep" and so on.. Contributions to the "porting" may be given either fixing the problems or sending errors detected. A knowledge of mailers, and of course of the Bourne shell, is required. Suggestions always welcome ;-) The RNA was already spread through comp.sources.misc on 10th of August; i had some feedbacks from people trying to run it on SUN O.S, without success. While the previous version (1.0) could be easily patched without much effort, this one is harder to follow, and that's why i would try to create "diffs" available for as much systems as possible. Current capabilities are very close to those of Netlib by AT&T ;-) Source code is less than 25K, as a SINGLE program, no splitted parts, no daemons to install in your cron for testing, no message files to fill, just few "index" files and you are ready to go. Volunteers may contact me on Usenet at i2ack.UUCP which is reachable through ddsw1!deejay (ddsw1.MCS.COM). No EUNET sites please, we are always "blacklisted" over mcvax, and i could not reply/send anything there. Thanks a lot Paolo P.S. By the way, the so-called underground network down here is now lawfully acknowledged, and we are trying to get a second-level domain. Just to let someone know we are always up.. without tricks. ;-) -- Paolo Ventafridda, Milano IT **** EUcon: venta@i2ack.UUCP SUBLINK Maps & Network management ** USENET: ddsw1.MCS.COM!deejay!i2ack!venta Warning: this is an RFC Pressurized Signature (C) - Protect from sunlight and do not expose to temperatures over 50C. Do not pierce or burn even after use.