blarson@blars (12/18/90)
A beta-test copy of blarslib is now available for ftp from smilodon.cs.wisc.edu. Blarslib is a library of unix-compatability routines designed to aid porting unix software to osk. Much of the software I'll be puting there will require blarslib to compile and load. Blarslib does not interfere with standard OSK include files or directories, so existing software will have no problems and upgrading OSK should be relitivly painless. (The TOP library does not do this.) The thing blarslib needs most desparatly is better documentation, but most of it can be figured out from unix documentation, osk documentation, and the source. Most of the stuff I will put there is minor utilities, but C-news and rn will make it there eventually. I'm currently uploading compressed tar files. Would ar or shar files be prefered? I already put a shar file with tar in the there, but my latest port of compress requires blarslib which is a bit big to put in a shar file IMHO. -- blarson@usc.edu C news and rn for os9/68k! -- Bob Larson (blars) blarson@usc.edu usc!blarson Hiding differences does not make them go away. Accepting differences makes them unimportant.
ralf@ppcnet.ppc.sub.org (Ralf Sauther) (12/19/90)
blarson@blars writes: >A beta-test copy of blarslib is now available for ftp from >smilodon.cs.wisc.edu. Blarslib is a library of unix-compatability >routines designed to aid porting unix software to osk. Much of the Well... why don't you distribute this package via news ? Especially in germany is it hard to get any soft via ftp, cause there are only a small amount of internet-sites (and badly none for public :-( So, how about posting it ? Or how about a new group named "comp.sources.osk" ? :-)) >The thing blarslib needs most desparatly is better documentation, but >most of it can be figured out from unix documentation, osk >documentation, and the source. Documentation is always hard to write.. We know that also from TOP :-) >Most of the stuff I will put there is minor utilities, but C-news and >rn will make it there eventually. Hmm, rn... NN running quite well (6.3.10) and is easier to handle as rn :-) Gruss Ralf -- Ralf Sauther | ...doitcr!smurf!ppcnet!ralf | ralf@ppcnet.ppc.sub.org | +49 7274 76825 (voice only) |
blarson@blars (12/22/90)
In article <9XiNrD@ppcnet.ppc.sub.org> ralf@ppcnet.ppc.sub.org (Ralf Sauther) writes: >blarson@blars writes: >>A beta-test copy of blarslib is now available for ftp from >>smilodon.cs.wisc.edu. >Well... why don't you distribute this package via news ? I don't consider it a finished package. Sites with Internet access are more likely to be able to get mail to me reliably, so are prefered beta testers. I realy don't think the number of people wanting it that don't have Internet access justifies the expense of posting it to usenet every time I make a change. > Especially in germany is it hard to get any soft via ftp, There is a general purpouse ftp-mail server available. (bitftp@pucc.princeton.edu if memory serves, I've never used it.) >Or how about a new group named "comp.sources.osk" ? :-)) I'd vote for it, why don't you initiate the group creation procedure? (call for discussion.) >Documentation is always hard to write.. We know that also from TOP :-) You didn't know it before? >Hmm, rn... NN running quite well (6.3.10) and is easier to handle >as rn :-) rn seems like a nice enough newsreader to me. I havn't had sufficient incentive to try anything else lately. (both nn and trn require auxilery databases.) -- blarson@usc.edu C news and rn for os9/68k! -- Bob Larson (blars) blarson@usc.edu usc!blarson Hiding differences does not make them go away. Accepting differences makes them unimportant.
blarson@blars (12/22/90)
Oops, I forgot to mention in my previous posting that uunet customers should contact them about their ftp-uucp gateway, and if you want an account on my system so you can kermit it send me private mail. -- blarson@usc.edu C news and rn for os9/68k! -- Bob Larson (blars) blarson@usc.edu usc!blarson Hiding differences does not make them go away. Accepting differences makes them unimportant.
halkoD@batman.moravian.EDU (David Halko) (01/08/91)
Someone suggested a new news group called comp.sources.osk now, this is one of the best ideas I have heard in a VERY long time. UI have been waiting for one of those things to pop up in the near future! we now have anonymous FTP sights, we now have a mailing list (for OS9) we now have several user groups where OS9 is discussed regularly NOW we could use a sources news group.... it has been VERY VERY VERY neglected.... how could we get one added??? David J. Halko
blarson@blars (01/26/91)
In article <2478@batman.moravian.EDU> halkoD@batman.moravian.EDU (David Halko) writes: >Someone suggested a new news group called > >comp.sources.osk > >now, this is one of the best ideas I have heard in a VERY long time. > >NOW we could use a sources news group.... how could we get one added??? If you want to create a new newsgroup, read the group creation article posted to news.announce.newusers monthly. The first step is posting a call for discussion to news.announce.newsgroups crossposted to other groups as appropriate (comp.os.os9 and comp.sources.d in this case). I would vote for it, but I also doubt it would get the 100 vote margin needed for creation. I post os9 sources of sufficient utility/expected demand to comp.sources.misc. Several years ago, the calculated breakeven point between usenet posting and email distribution was at about 100 users. (For less than 100, the amount of money spent for long-distance email was less than that spent in long-distance newsfeeds. The expence is concentrated on fewer sites with email.) I don't think there is that much demand for a BETA-TEST version of blarslib, which may be updated a number of times before I give up on it or consider it finished. With bitftp@pucc.princeton.edu, any site with reliably email to the Internet can retrive files that were previously only available via FTP. The people who complain about this seem to be those that are charged for email but not for usenet. (Local postings may be able to help locate people who also want the same thing and are willing to split the cost.) I pay the same for email and usenet, and don't like such people using the MORE EXPENSIVE (but to different people) broadcast as a substitute for email. (Currently, I pay very little for either. I plan on getting a more reliable and more expensive mail connection as soon as I get uucp working reliably.) -- blarson@usc.edu C news and rn for os9/68k! -- Bob Larson (blars) blarson@usc.edu usc!blarson Hiding differences does not make them go away. Accepting differences makes them unimportant.