Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ncoast.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxj!houxm!whuxlm!akgua!mcnc!decvax!cwruecmp!atvax!ncoast!bsa From: bsa@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery (the tame hacker on the North Coast)) Newsgroups: net.wanted.sources Subject: Re: Hack on Unix 5.2 Message-ID: <557@ncoast.UUCP> Date: Thu, 24-Jan-85 00:48:38 EST Article-I.D.: ncoast.557 Posted: Thu Jan 24 00:48:38 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 27-Jan-85 07:46:05 EST References: <829@hound.UUCP> <414@mcvax.UUCP> <758@clyde.UUCP> Reply-To: bsa@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery (the tame hacker on the North Coast)) Organization: The North Coast Xenix System, Cleveland Lines: 30 Summary: > Article <758@clyde.UUCP>, from jona@clyde.UUCP (Jon Allingham) +---------------- | > In article <829@hound.UUCP> pearse@hound.UUCP (S.PEARSE) writes: | > >Has anyone got Unix to work on Unix 5.2? I've tried the 5.2 fix (3 files recently | > >posted) but they don't seem to do the trick. A number of us are going crazy | > >trying to get it to work! | > | > No, you will never get Unix to work on Unix 5.2. Consider it inadequate. | | Don't be ridiculous. Hack works just fine on Sys V Rel 2. If the authors | had used a real, high-level terminal handler package it wouldn't even | have needed a lot of the changes that had to be made for SVR2. And, from my experience with -lcurses, it would have run like molasses kept in liquid nitrogen. What they SHOULD have done is made a set of primitives, all located in a single file with nothing else, that could simply be replaced with terminfo stuff. Maybe the terminfo curses is faster; but I doubt it. Cursor optimization would do more harm than good in a game like Hack where the program pretty much already has optimized cursor motion. P.S. The second comment above was probably a crack at AT&T, not a comment about Hack (then again, in some ways they're the same thing...) --bsa -- Brandon Allbery @ decvax!cwruecmp!ncoast!bsa (..ncoast!tdi1!bsa business) 6504 Chestnut Road, Independence, Ohio 44131 +1 216 524 1416 (or what have you) Who said you had to be (a) a poor programmer or (b) a security hazard to be a hacker?