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Re: Usenet Stories

From Robert Swindells <rjs@fdy2.co.uk>
Newsgroups alt.folklore.computers
Subject Re: Usenet Stories
Date 2020-09-09 19:02 +0000
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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On Wed, 09 Sep 2020 18:48:16 +0100, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:

> On 9 Sep 2020 17:20:52 GMT Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid>
> wrote:
> 
>> On 2020-09-09, Niklas Karlsson <anksil@yahoo.se> wrote:
>> 
>> > On 2020-09-08, Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> wrote:
>> >
>> >> 	I had a lot of fun configuring sendmail when I built a puntmail
>> >> workalike (I called it drop-kick and it actually had a "drop" and a
>> >> "kick"), raw sendmail.cf no macros.
>> >
>> > You're a better man than I. I consider sendmail.cf a Lovecraftian
>> > nightmare.
>> 
>> I never went near sendmail.  Configuring X was bad enough.
> 
> 	Compiling X the first time caused me some grief - the version of
> Interactive I had lacked TCP/IP, streams and IPC. It also had an
> irritating line length limitation in make that broke the Xlib Makefile
> (at least) in X11R5. Pseudo TTY pairs was the only communication
> mechanism available, and only one side of that was implemented in the
> X11 code. Getting an X on the screen that moved with the mouse took some
> effort.

I thought that STREAMS was in the base product of Interactive UNIX, I
bought the AT&T manuals for it and remember writing a driver to get X11
to work.

I was using a graphics card with a TMS34010 processor so getting the
display part working was a lot more effort than the comms driver.

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Usenet Stories Jason Evans <jsevans@mailfence.com> - 2020-09-06 12:08 +0000
  Re: Usenet Stories Bob Eager <news0073@eager.cx> - 2020-09-06 14:08 +0000
    Re: Usenet Stories Bud Spencer <bud@campo.verano.it> - 2020-09-06 18:02 +0300
      Re: Usenet Stories John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2020-09-06 18:27 +0000
        Re: Usenet Stories Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2020-09-06 23:01 +0100
    Re: Usenet Stories Jason Evans <jsevans@mailfence.com> - 2020-09-07 16:59 +0000
      Re: Usenet Stories Michael LeVine <mlevinespmfltr@redshift.com> - 2020-09-07 10:35 -0700
      Re: Usenet Stories JimP <chucktheouch@gmail.com> - 2020-09-08 09:31 -0500
        Re: Usenet Stories Bob Eager <news0073@eager.cx> - 2020-09-08 14:43 +0000
          Re: Usenet Stories Niklas Karlsson <anksil@yahoo.se> - 2020-09-08 14:53 +0000
            Re: Usenet Stories Bob Eager <news0073@eager.cx> - 2020-09-08 15:41 +0000
          Re: Usenet Stories Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2020-09-08 20:53 +0100
            Re: Usenet Stories scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2020-09-08 20:45 +0000
            Re: Usenet Stories Niklas Karlsson <anksil@yahoo.se> - 2020-09-09 14:45 +0000
              Re: Usenet Stories Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2020-09-09 17:20 +0000
                Re: Usenet Stories Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2020-09-09 18:48 +0100
                Re: Usenet Stories Robert Swindells <rjs@fdy2.co.uk> - 2020-09-09 19:02 +0000
                Re: Usenet Stories Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2020-09-09 21:06 +0100
                Re: Usenet Stories John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2020-09-09 21:33 +0000
                Re: Usenet Stories Robert Swindells <rjs@fdy2.co.uk> - 2020-09-09 21:50 +0000
                Re: Usenet Stories scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2020-09-10 15:49 +0000
              Re: Usenet Stories Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2020-09-09 18:03 +0100
  Re: Usenet Stories Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2020-09-06 16:22 +0000
    Re: Usenet Stories Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2020-09-06 19:01 +0000
  Re: Usenet Stories Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2020-09-06 19:44 +0300
  Re: Usenet Stories Owen Rees <orees@hotmail.com> - 2020-09-06 21:46 +0100
    Re: Usenet Stories Jason Evans <jsevans@mailfence.com> - 2020-09-07 06:27 +0000
  Re: Usenet Stories Dallas <dallas@texas.usa> - 2020-09-09 12:22 -0500
    Re: Usenet Stories "Kerr-Mudd,John" <notsaying@127.0.0.1> - 2020-11-03 19:46 +0000
  Re: Usenet Stories DNews <newsup@somewhere.cbr> - 2020-10-16 08:23 +0000
    Re: Usenet Stories Faux Dameron <fauxdameron@mailfence.com> - 2020-10-16 14:40 +0000
      Re: Usenet Stories f6k <f6k@huld.re> - 2020-10-16 23:02 +0200
    Usenet Stories Schmitty <Thomas.Heinrich.Schmidt@googlemail.com> - 2020-11-06 10:13 +0100
      Re: Usenet Stories Schmitty <Thomas.Heinrich.Schmidt@googlemail.com> - 2020-12-04 15:17 +0100
        Re: Usenet Stories f6k <f6k@huld.re> - 2020-12-09 18:58 +0100
          Re: Usenet Stories f6k <f6k@huld.re> - 2020-12-09 19:06 +0100
            Re: Usenet Stories Schmitty <Thomas.Heinrich.Schmidt@googlemail.com> - 2020-12-11 15:56 +0100
  Re: Usenet Stories "A.T. Murray" <mentificium@gmail.com> - 2020-10-21 12:30 -0700
    No Usenet Stories Schmitty <Thomas.Heinrich.Schmidt@googlemail.com> - 2020-10-23 12:05 +0200
      Re: No Usenet Stories Jason Evans <jsevans@mailfence.com> - 2020-10-24 07:10 +0000
        Re: No Usenet Stories Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2020-10-24 08:47 +0100
          Re: No Usenet Stories Jason Evans <jsevans@mailfence.com> - 2020-10-24 18:00 +0000
          Re: No Usenet Stories JimP <chucktheouch@gmail.com> - 2020-10-24 18:17 -0500
            Re: No Usenet Stories Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2020-10-25 08:03 +0000
              Re: No Usenet Stories JimP <chucktheouch@gmail.com> - 2020-10-25 10:32 -0500

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