Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!snorkelwacker!paperboy!meissner From: meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec Subject: Re: Tradeoffs between DEC & MIT servers Message-ID: Date: 9 Sep 90 22:01:57 GMT References: <6524@tekgen.BV.TEK.COM> <9009080033.AA20488@xenon.lcs.mit.edu> <1990Sep8.105509@pacific.csl.uiuc.edu> <26E9DDD7.8886@orion.oac.uci.edu> Sender: news@OSF.ORG Organization: Open Software Foundation Lines: 31 In-reply-to: iglesias@orion.oac.uci.edu's message of 9 Sep 90 06:14:47 GMT In article <26E9DDD7.8886@orion.oac.uci.edu> iglesias@orion.oac.uci.edu (Mike Iglesias) writes: | In article meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner) writes: | > [... stuff deleted ...] | >I use a hacked version of the X11R4 xconsole contributed software. | >Here is the shar of my current changes (it's a complete shar, so you | >don't need to get the original). Earlier versions ran on DECwindows, | >but I may have changed things about when I went to X11R4. You | >definately need to define XAW_BC for Athena Widget bug compatibility | >mode. | | I'm curious why you needed to hack xconsole. I'm using it straight | from the the R4 sources on DECstations running Ultrix 3.0/3.1/4.0 | with no problems, althought I'm not using getcons. Because I added some features. 1) I added an option to ignore lines matching a regexp. 2) I completely skip \r in messages (I hate the ^M that comes up) 3) I added an option to print the message date if the message is more than 5 minutes older than the previous message. 4) I added an option to ring the bell when getting a new message. 5) I fixed where somebody's mail/news agent split some long lines. 6) I made it work with the Ultrix include files before I moved to R4. 7) I made ^G's in the output ring the bell. -- Michael Meissner email: meissner@osf.org phone: 617-621-8861 Open Software Foundation, 11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA, 02142 Do apple growers tell their kids money doesn't grow on bushes?