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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!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: Tue, 08 Sep 1992 19:20:00 GMT Message-ID: <1992Sep08.192000.4488@kithrup.COM> References: <2R1JJPG@taronga.com> <1992Sep07.101851.2123@kithrup.COM> <1992Sep8.134824.5149@pegasus.com> Lines: 19 In article <1992Sep8.134824.5149@pegasus.com> richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk) writes: >A good example of the problem that half a standard (POSIX) creates! Take >a look at just about any of the larger products that have crossed over >from the DOS world. They all use their own incompatible version of a >termcap-like library. A good example of what a closed mind creates. The termcap library I used was the Net/2 termcap library. Since I was creating a library suite that could be used without any of the system's library or header files, I obviously couldn't use the system termcap library. Sad situation. -- 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.