bcw@duke.UUCP (06/05/84)
Some time ago I tried to get Empire running on Eunice; I got most of it to work, but several strange things about the way the program worked (or failed to as the case may be) led me to believe that the program uses the Unix feature of passing file handles to child processes (a feature whose wisdom I have doubted, but it's there... and it can make moving code which uses it a real pain...). Letters to Peter Langston (net letters, not snail letters) went unanswered, (or at least unanswered in a constructive way ... I got a couple of letters along the lines of "I'll reply in a day or so"), so I concluded that he is either unable or unwilling to think about the problems of moving the program to eunice. If anyone is able to persuade Peter to think about the problem, I would also be interested in a version which ran under eunice.