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On Wed, 2002-04-17 at 16:49, Adrian Chadd wrote:
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<PRE><FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>On Wed, Apr 17, 2002, Riff wrote:</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> Still it would be fun to port a few of them to a range of</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> distros/platforms. Considering that would give them very nice telnet/ssh</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> facility, and would give them full colour capability, and maintain the</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> usefulness of the terminal for when all the door members deceide they</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> have to go to class.</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>Why not learn how to program stuff for MacOS 7 and write up a</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>decent telnet/ssh client?</FONT></FONT></I></PRE>
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<FONT SIZE="3">As I recall MacOS 7 requires co-operative multitasking (that sounds evil already)</FONT>
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<PRE><FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>All the telnet/ssh side of stuff is done - you'll just have to write</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>up a decent terminal emulator.</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>Start with putty - you can get the source for that - and see if</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>its going to be easy or hard to adapt the actual terminal emulation</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>side of things.</FONT></FONT></I></PRE>
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<FONT SIZE="3">Let's add the idea off writing to my, 'think about it' list. Considering my project list is already quite long. (i think this is something to do with my short attension span).</FONT>
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<FONT SIZE="3">I have a few pieces of code to do already, and I want to fuck around with the kernel on my mac a bit (see if I can't get a semi working incantation of the sound and floppy drivers)</FONT>
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<FONT SIZE="3">Of course, if someone else wanted to write one... I'm sure UCC would love to let you use the mac's to develop it ;)</FONT>
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<PRE><FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>Running linux on the macs is fun, but they're macs, not PCs.</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>Besides, one should be able to play network bolo now. :)</FONT></FONT></I></PRE>
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<FONT SIZE="3">Yes, Bolo is good, although not really my style.</FONT>
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<FONT SIZE="3">--davYd</FONT>
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