26 Feb
2003
26 Feb
'03
4:40 a.m.
In article by Tim Shoppa:
% tar vtzf PDP-11/Distributions/ucb/2.9BSD/usr.tar.gz | grep -i fest
-rwxrwxr-x 3/3 37484 Nov 17 13:00 1982 ./games/festoon
-rw-rw-rw- 1/1 3536 Aug 2 23:08 1983 ./man/cat6/festoon.6
-rw-r--r-- 3/3 3012 Aug 2 21:26 1983 ./man/man6/festoon.6
% tar vtzf Applications/Shoppa_Tapes/usenix878889.tar.gz | grep -i festoon
drwxr-xr-x 100/10 0 Mar 29 06:53 1989 usenix89/:Bugs/Festoon/
drwxr-xr-x 100/10 0 Mar 29 06:53 1989 usenix89/:Bugs/Festoon/:BUGS/
-r--r--r-- 100/10 2975 Jul 2 02:48 1987 usenix89/:Bugs/Festoon/:BUGS/1
That's all I can find in the Unix Archive at present.
Warren
P.S ./games/festoon is an 0407 binary. No source.
Does anyone
remember this program (probably /usr/games/festoon)
It's come up at least twice on alt.folklore.computers in the last decade,
but I've never seen a pointer to the actual source yet.