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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!kithrup!sef From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) Subject: Re: AT&T Long Distance Boycott (was: BNR2SS, Mach, and The Lawsuit) Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd. Date: Mon, 07 Sep 1992 10:18:51 GMT Message-ID: <1992Sep07.101851.2123@kithrup.COM> References: <QG0JYC1@taronga.com> <1992Sep06.065525.8475@kithrup.COM> <2R1JJPG@taronga.com> Lines: 20 In article <2R1JJPG@taronga.com> peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >That makes perfect sense, since they're hackerware. All they do is file >translation, and the only OS services they need are reading and writing >files. *sigh* Fine. trn (without networking) compiles without anything other than what is given in POSIX (if you throw in a termcap library, which can easily be provided with it and considered "part of the application"). And, last time I checked, trn was an application, even more so than a compiler and whatnot are. -- Sean Eric Fagan | "You can't get lost in one room, no matter how sef@kithrup.COM | little effort you make to learn your way around." -----------------+ -- William E Davidsen (william@crd.GE.COM) Any opinions expressed are my own, and generally unpopular with others.