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From: mike@bria.UUCP (mike.stefanik)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: wanted: UNIX or clone
Message-ID: <253@bria.UUCP>
Date: 4 May 91 22:52:38 GMT
References: <1991Apr28.155002.7791@unixland.uucp> <24@metran.UUCP> <832@tiamat.fsc.com> <1991May4.125515.8831@pegasus.com>
Reply-To: uunet!bria!mike
Organization: MGI Group International, Los Angeles, CA
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In an article, richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk) writes:
|Why must the MSDOS boys always enlist morons from the wrong side of the
|tracks to do their Unix ports for them?    :-(
|
|I'll bet their termcrap database is some inscrutable binary format just
|to keep mere mortals away.

Indeed, WP does use some funky, obscure database for terminals.  I almost
heard a tech choke on the other end of the phone when I suggested that
they use something akin to termcap, if not termcap itself.

-- 
Michael Stefanik, MGI Inc, Los Angeles | Opinions stated are never realistic
Title of the week: Systems Engineer    | UUCP: ...!uunet!bria!mike
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If MS-DOS didn't exist, who would UNIX programmers have to make fun of?