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From: blarson@dianne.usc.edu (bob larson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
Subject: mv, free software, and c news for osk
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Date: 20 Aug 90 08:46:53 GMT
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More than a year after I post my ln, mv (programs) link, rename
(functions) package to usenet, two more show up!  I've been using mine
for over a year, and have not found any problems with using file
locking as the only protection from multiple users coliding.  (I only
have one set of hands and three terminals on my system, so I might not
be a good test of this...)

The only problem I have noticed is when I tried to mv a directory into
a subdirectory of itself...

Oh well, ln.ar is available on zog (213)461-7948 (zog is a no-charge
bbs running on an os9 coco) and maybe other bbs's in the stg network,
and somewhere on compuserve (dl 12?).  If I get a few more requests, I
may repost it here, its only about 8k bytes.

In my unplanned absence from usenet for the last few weeks, (I've
uploaded several things to zog (nothing new, it's all on compuserve):
diff, (larry wall's) patch, ln, dis09, and freeb.  Mg 2a and C kermit
4f(90) will be uploaded if there are requests.  Most of my software is
written for os9/68k, but should be fairly easy to port to os9/6809
unless it has non-trivial memory needs.  ln and freeb are the
only trivial memory programs in that list...  dis09 is 6809 only and
hasn't been touched since my coco died several years ago.

Another side benifit of that unplanned absence is I spent some time on
my port of C news to osk and have made significant progress.
relaynews (the heart of c news) works, but expire trashes the
history.pag file which can be rebuilt with mkdbm.  (Further checking
reveals that expire works fine, I was just confused by the much
smaller history.pag files it created.  Now I understand dbz better.)
(Much of the time porting c news was spent tracking down and working
around C compiler bugs.)  It looks like usenet on osk will become a
reality in the near future... 


-- 
Bob Larson (blars)	blarson@usc.edu			usc!blarson
	Hiding differences does not make them go away.  Accepting
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