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Re: [TUHS] Does anybody have this book and can look for something for me?

by Pat Barron

This book can apparently be "borrowed" from the Internet Archive. I'm not sure how they do that, haven't tried to, I just see it says you need to log in to borrow the book for 14 days. https://archive.org/details/unixprimerplus00wait --Pat.

6 years, 2 months

Does anybody have this book and can look for something for me? - solved

by Jon Steinhart

Thanks to Pat, I looked at the book at the Internet Archive and it is there.

6 years, 2 months

Does anybody have this book and can look for something for me?

by Jon Steinhart

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

6 years, 2 months

List ping

by Warren Toomey

Just checking you are all still out there :-) Cheers, Warren

6 years, 2 months

Re: [TUHS] List ping

by Nemo Nusquam

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.

6 years, 2 months

Retaining file-modified timestamps

by jnc＠mercury.lcs.mit.edu

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#mvall http://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

6 years, 2 months

Re: [TUHS] a possible source for 4.1BSD tapes

by Richard Tobin

> "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.

6 years, 3 months

a possible source for 4.1BSD tapes

by Mike Haertel

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?

6 years, 3 months

Another old DMR and Brian Redman story

by ron＠ronnatalie.com

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.

6 years, 3 months

Happy birthday, NetBSD!

by Dave Horsfall

According to my (possibly inaccurate) notes: NetBSD checked in 1993 Message-ID: <alpine.NEB.2.20.1803211456560.25928(a)t1.m.reedmedia.net> Revision 1.1, Sun Mar 21 09:45:37 1993 UTC (25 years ago) by cgd http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/sbin/init/init.c?rev=1.1&content-ty… "Today is commonly considered the birthday of NetBSD. As far as I know, it is the oldest continuously-maintained complete open source operating system. (It predates Slackware Linux, FreeBSD, and Debian Linux by some months.)" -- Dave

6 years, 3 months

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