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From: ralf@ppcnet.ppc.sub.org (Ralf Sauther)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
Subject: Re: blarslib: unix portability library for OSK
Message-ID: <9XiNrD@ppcnet.ppc.sub.org>
Date: 19 Dec 90 07:20:26 GMT
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blarson@blars writes:

>A beta-test copy of blarslib is now available for ftp from
>smilodon.cs.wisc.edu.  Blarslib is a library of unix-compatability
>routines designed to aid porting unix software to osk.  Much of the
Well... why don't you distribute this package via news ? Especially in
germany is it hard to get any soft via ftp, cause there are only a
small amount of internet-sites (and badly none for public :-( So, how about
posting it ? Or how about a new group named "comp.sources.osk" ? :-))

>The thing blarslib needs most desparatly is better documentation, but
>most of it can be figured out from unix documentation, osk
>documentation, and the source.
Documentation is always hard to write.. We know that also from TOP :-)

>Most of the stuff I will put there is minor utilities, but C-news and
>rn will make it there eventually.
Hmm, rn... NN running quite well (6.3.10) and is easier to handle
as rn :-)


Gruss Ralf
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