ast@cs.vu.nl (06/08/88)
While waiting for some progress on the RS232 front, I am starting to look at programs that I collected over the net and by mail during the past year. One quick observation: please test your programs before distributing them. So far, only one program even compiled without manual intervention, and in most cases I can't even figure out what has to be done to make the programs compile, let alone run. I have also received a stream of "improvements" to fgrep and other programs posted recently. None of these actually worked. Please test things a bit more carefully. The one program I have that worked perfectly the first time is paste (used on System 5). It prints files side by side, sort of like pr -m, and it does other tricks. However, paste is copyrighted by David Ihnat. He lists his address as ihuxx!ignatz and phone # as (312) 784-4544. I have tried to contact him unsucessfully. I would like to ask his permission to include paste in V1.3, but if I can't get a hold of him, I won't distribute it. If anyone knows his proper address, could you please mail it to me? My best guess is that ihuxx is probably Bell Labs at Indian Hill. Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)
ignatz@chinet.UUCP (Dave Ihnat) (06/13/88)
For the record, I'm found (actually, I never felt lost, personally...)
My telephone number was accurate, but my address via UUCP is more reliably
ihnp4!homebru!ignatz (or, soon, probably hoptoad!homebru!ignatz...)
Thanks to those who pointed out my "lost status"...but you can stop now...
Dave Ihnat
Analysts International Corp.
ihnp4!{homebru|chinet|aicchi|riccb}!ignatz