All,
This e-mail below was prompted by an interview I gave about
the SCO thing for an Australian paper:
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/09/09/1062902037394.html
----- Forwarded message from Ulrik Petersen <emdros(a)yahoo.dk> -----
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 19:44:51 +0200 (CEST)
From: Ulrik Petersen <emdros(a)yahoo.dk>
Subject: Helping in the battle against SCO
I saw a recent article in the Sydney Morning Herald in
which a Dr. Warren Toomey (presumably you?) was quoted
as saying that the TUHS has several members who have
access to old copies of UNIX source code.
Please ask these people to try out one of the three
"shredders" which can compare sourcecode from Linux
with other sourcecode, and, if possible, analyze and
publish the results.
One of these shredders is written by Eric S. Raymond.
Here is a link to an article in which he calls for
action by people with access to UNIX sourcecode:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1257617,00.asp
The program itself can be found here:
http://www.catb.org/~esr/comparator/
Regards,
Ulrik Petersen, Denmark
----- End forwarded message -----
Anyway, I think it's a good idea, so I'd like to hear from people
who have access to recent AT&T code. My GPG and PGP keys are at
http://minnie.tuhs.org/warren.html and on most keyservers if you
so wish to use them.
Thanks,
Warren
>I was having some problems compiling SIMH on FreeBSD. The reason is, all
>the sources have stray MS-DOS carriage returns (^M), while UNIX only
>uses line-feeds (^J). This causes GCC to misread some of the code. I
>suggest you convert the sources to UNIX text format.
use 'unzip -a' to automatically convert text files when unpacking.
>BTW, why is networking not supported on FreeBSD? Does the pcap driver
>not work?
on FreeBSD you can't send packets directly over bpf (at least not
the same way you can on Net-/OpenBSD). I have patches to make it
use libnet for sending packets. It's a bit rough, but it works. I
can put them up somewhere if anyone is interested.
--rp
I was having some problems compiling SIMH on FreeBSD. The reason is, all
the sources have stray MS-DOS carriage returns (^M), while UNIX only
uses line-feeds (^J). This causes GCC to misread some of the code. I
suggest you convert the sources to UNIX text format.
Once I correct all that, the code compiles fine for me.
BTW, why is networking not supported on FreeBSD? Does the pcap driver
not work?
--
Maciek (macbiesz(a)optonline.net)
