OK, something that's not a ping :-)
I'm trying to track down the author of a cartoon that I'd like to use
in my book so that I can try to get permission. Last one that I need!
It's a cartoon that I only have on paper and don't know where it came
from. It has two frames, then and now, the first with a bunch of
cavemen grunting awk, grep, mkdir, yank, the second with a bunch of
people sitting at computers uttering the same.
I recently stumbled upon something that said that these were in a book
called "UNIX Primer PLUS". Anybody have a copy of that? If so, can
you please check to see if that's the original or whether they got it
from somewhere else?
Thanks,
Jon
On 04/10/19 09:59, arnold(a)skeeve.com wrote:
> Nemo <cym224(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 10/04/2019, Warren Toomey <wkt(a)tuhs.org> wrote:
>>> Just checking you are all still out there :-) Cheers, Warren
>> Well, this is not "Forever September"? #6-) I just finished reading a
>> fascinating article on Inferno and was most amused by the comment in
>> Rob Pike's biblio note at the end. N.
> So, please share article link and comment with the list? Thanks, Arnold
Apologies -- I found it here:
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6772868/ Bell Labs Tech. J., Vol.
2, Iss. 1, 1997 (or here
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/bltj.2028 but there must
an open version available by now).
Pike wrote: "He has never written a program that uses cursor addressing."
N.
So, a while back I mentioned that I'd done tweaked versions of 'cp', 'mv',
'chmod' etc for V6 which retained the original modified date of a file (when
the actual contents were not changed). I had some requests for those versions,
which I have finally got around to checking and uploading (along with 'mvall',
which for some reason V6 didn't have). I've added them to a couple of my V6
pages:
http://www.chiappa.net/~jnc/tech/V6Unix.html#mvallhttp://www.chiappa.net/~jnc/tech/ImprovingV6.html#FileWrite
Note (per the page) that the latter group all require the smdate() system
call, which was commented out in 'vanilla' V6 (because using it confused the
backup system); the page gives instructions on how to turn it back on.
Noel
> "taperead" in http://github.com/brouhaha/tapeutils can extract files
> from a tape image.
The format is very simple: a 32-bit little-endian record length,
followed by that many bytes, followed by the length again for
integrity checking. A record length of zero is a file mark.
-- Richard
--
The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in
Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
I noticed that the TUHS archive does not include a 4.1BSD distribution.
Also, while poking around the net, I've found a number of purported
tape images of 4.1BSD dated 7/10/1981 that look to me to a little sketchy,
since most contain files dated well into 1982.
So it appears to me that 4.1BSD is semi-lost.
While googling all this, I discovered that the School of Computer Science
and Statistics at Trinity College Dublin has an online archive catalog
which lists a couple of 4.1BSD distribution tapes in the "John Gabriel Byrne
Computer Science Collection".
https://scss.tcd.ie/SCSSTreasuresCatalog/
Perhaps someone from TUHS who lives near Dublin could investigate and
see if images can be made of these tapes?
Years ago just before one of the USENIX meetings in Atlanta Dennis made some
joke comment that nobody had ever asked for a plaster cast of his genitals.
A bunch of us thought it would be fun at the conference to hand out genital
casting kits to Dennis and certain others of note. We ran down to a
local art supply store and bought some plaster and portioned out into zone
ziplock bags We added some paper cups to use for molds and wooded sticks
to mix with. We needed a release agent. Vaseline would work, but I
couldn't figure out how we'd get small portions (I couldn't use the ziplock
bag idea practically). Fortunately, there was a little gift shop in the
hotel lobby and they had these travel size jars. Perfect.
Now the interesting thing was that concurrent with USENIX was the Southern
Baptist Conference meetings (this led to some odd events at local
restaurants).
Anyhow, I walk up to the cashier and plop down ten jars of Vaseline.
She looks at me and says, "I guess y'all aren't with the Baptists."
Oddly, most recipients took the gift in good spirit but Redman had a fit for
some reason. Babette suggested perhaps we made the kit too large for him.
According to my (possibly inaccurate) notes:
NetBSD checked in 1993
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system. (It predates Slackware Linux, FreeBSD, and Debian Linux by some
months.)"
-- Dave
Hello,
I'm looking for old DNS software - servers, clients, libraries. The
oldest one I've found is BIND 4.3 from 4.3BSD (and it works as a
resolver on 2019 Internet), but there were earlier ones -
http://www.donelan.com/dnstimeline.html says that UCB released first
BIND in 1985, something was running on earlier servers. Any help would
be appreciated.
Witold Krecicki
