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From: guy@sun.uucp (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: net.wanted.sources
Subject: Re: System III Sources + catalog
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Date: Sun, 16-Jun-85 23:44:20 EDT
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> I am looking for software that will run on System III.  Much of the
> software that I have seen recently is written for 4.2BSD, SVr2, or both.
> But much of that won't work on my poor old System III system.

A slight request to developers of source code that will end up in
{net,mod}.sources: please don't use any features of your particular version
of UNIX that aren't available in "lowest common denominator" UNIX unless
doing so makes a big difference.  There are still a lot of "old" versions of
UNIX out there, which don't have file locking, or "truncate", or any IPC
other than pipes between ancestrally related processes, or....  If your
application doesn't need those features (there are a lot that do, though),
it's not too hard to write it so that it'll run under most versions of UNIX
since V7.

	Guy Harris