Re: [TUHS] networking on unix before uucp

Dan Cross scripsit: # filedes = open( "/dev/net/harv",2 ); # if( filedes < 0 ) # printf(" harvard is dead"); # else # while( (nbytes=read(filedes,buf,80)) > 0 ) # write( 0,buf,nbytes ); If only this code still worked on modern Unixes! The socket API is fine, but there really was no need to break good old open, at least for client-side operations. Plan 9 got it right here, as usual. # In this light Bell was approached to see what their reaction # would be to an ARPA network wide liscense, they said they were # open to suggestions in that area. So should enough people # become interested, perhaps a less expensive fee can be # negotiated. Alas for maiden, alas for Judge, For rich repiner and household drudge! God pity them both! and pity us all, Who vainly the dreams of youth recall; For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been!" --John Greenleaf Whittier, "Maud Muller" To which Bret Harte added in "Mrs. Judge Jenkins": More sad are these we daily see: "It is, but hadn't ought to be". -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan(a)ccil.org The whole of Gaul is quartered into three halves. --Julius Caesar