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From: hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu)
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Subject: Re: How to post umoria?
Keywords: umoria, source, diffs, programming
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Date: 17 Aug 88 20:46:38 GMT
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Would've been nice to know this was coming ahead of time, then I would've
saved the copy of umoria sources we got. I think you're best bet is to
send the sources to the moderator as well. It's easy enough to generate
context diffs on your nearest Unix box, but it's a bit harder for most
ST users to apply them. (Anyone working on porting Larry Wall's patch
program?)

This gives me an idea - p'raps people might want to start posting about
their current ST programming projects? Would give a greater indication of
an interested community, and also allows for people working on similar
things to connect with each other. At least, you'll know not to try to
duplicate someone else's effort. At best, you could collaborate and come
up with something Really Good a lot sooner.

Just to start, I could mention that I'm working with GNU's gcc, aiming
at getting it running on TOS and Minix. I know someone has ported the KA9Q
TCP/IP package to the ST finally, though they haven't been talking about it
here, and I haven't seen mention of the source for that yet. A few people
have casually mentioned NetHack 2.3. Has a bug fixed version ever appeared?
Other things I'd like to get working are GNU Make and RCS. (Which would
require working versions of diff and diff3, at least.) Anyone else doing
something they feel like talking about?
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