TUHS February 2004

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by norman＠nose.cita.utoronto.ca

I've assembled some notes from old manuals and other sources on the formats used for on-disk file systems through the Seventh Edition: http://www.cita.utoronto.ca/~norman/old-unix/old-fs.html Additional notes, comments on style, and whatnot are welcome. (It may be sensible to send anything in the last two categories directly to me, rather than to the whole list.)

1 year

Microsoft, SCO, and a certain License

by Wesley Parish

I know the SCO topic's been done to death, and all, but I was thinking about the Microsoft purchase of a Unix license (apparently) for their MS SFU (Windows Services For Unix) which contrary to the plain meaning of the name, is essentially a Unix (apparently OpenBSD, according to rumour) box on top of the Windows kernel and Win32 API. The question is, wouldn't that put Microsoft and the SCO Group in breach of the settlement between AT&T and Berkeley? If Win SFU _is_ OpenBSD, and Microsoft have bought a license to run it from the SCO Group of all people, isn't that in effect picking a fight with Theo de Raadt? This isn't definite, of course - some details I'm not sure of. But I think if this is so, we have some very interesting few years to look forward to. -- Wesley Parish * * * Clinersterton beademung - in all of love. RIP James Blish * * * Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."

19 years, 2 months

Re: [TUHS] Quasijarus.Z problem

by msokolov＠ivan.Harhan.ORG

Wesley Parish <wes.parish(a)paradise.net.nz> wrote: > I downloaded the two Quasijarus distros, Not sure which two do you mean, but keep in mind that the current release is 4.3BSD-Quasijarus0c, and that Warren's archive is no longer the main distribution site for 4.3BSD-Quasijarus and is not up to date. The main distribution site for 4.3BSD-Quasijarus is ifctfvax.Harhan.ORG. > I was under the impression that gzip (both standalone and included in tar) > knew how to handle compress files. Apparently not. Use real compress, get it from ifctfvax.Harhan.ORG:/pub/UNIX/components/compress.tar I'm using compress -s mode, which produces the same strong compression ratio as gzip (stronger than original compress), but without the politically unacceptable letter 'g'. MS

19 years, 2 months

Re: TUHS Digest, Vol 9, Issue 7

by Larry McVoy

This is a sort of lame message but I'm having a sort of lame day, dealing with some lame people who created some lame problems and I'm sick of lame. OK, enough with the whining already. The good part is that I got a message from this list. I am on a zillion mailing listings, I've been around since the arpa net had 11 IMPs, and long enough before that that I wacked pathalias. I witnessed first hand the first posting of +-------------------+ \ WARNING: Morons / \ next hundred / \ postings / \ !!!! / \ / \ / \/ back in the days where netnews was how we communicated and virtually everyone on news had a PhD or a Masters or was headed there (those were the days, eh?). I love getting mail from this list, it brightens up my day. After a day of nothing but cleaning up other people's messes, people who work for me and should know better, I was in a foul mood. Really foul. And then some mail from this list showed up and it just changed my whole day. Not because the mail was that uplifting but because it is a connection to my past, back when I used to argue with Guy Harris and thought I was right, back when all I wanted was to work at Sun. I really like this list, it's bright spot, but I wished you people were a little more vocal. Maybe it's just me but I wonder if I'm really the only one who revels in the past a bit... Maybe I need to get out more :) -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitkeeper.com

19 years, 2 months

Quasijarus.Z problem

by Wesley Parish

I downloaded the two Quasijarus distros, and tried " tar zxvf *.tar.Z ", and nothing happened. I was under the impression that gzip (both standalone and included in tar) knew how to handle compress files. Apparently not. My system's Mandrake 9.2, tar (GNU tar) 1.13.25. Is there some incantation I'm not doing? Any ideas? Thanks. -- Wesley Parish * * * Clinersterton beademung - in all of love. RIP James Blish * * * Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."

19 years, 3 months

Oldish UnixWare 2.x boxed copy - useful to TUHS or someone?

by David Ruggiero

Subject says it. I've got an old (well, 10+ years old) copy of Unixware (pre-old-SCO; I think it's release 2.01 or 2.03) in a boxed set with manuals, CDROMs, patch diskettes, etc. Is this of any use to TUHS or someone else as a donation or is it "too recent"? cheers, /David/

19 years, 3 months

[pups] how to extract Keith_Bostic_v7 files?

by Andriy Tkachuk

Hi guys. $subj ? I've tried to seach the list, but no success. It seems, that http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/pups.cgi don't work Thanks, Andriy Tkachuk

19 years, 3 months

[pups] how to extract Keith_Bostic_v7 files?

by Andriy Tkachuk

Hi guys. $subj ? I've tried to seach the list, but no success. It seems, that http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/pups.cgi don't work Thanks, Andriy Tkachuk

19 years, 3 months

[pups] Just the FAQs, ma'am...

by Kelli Halliburton

Can someone direct me to the FAQ?

19 years, 3 months

Re: TUHS Digest, Vol 9, Issue 1

by russ

----- Original Message ----- From: <tuhs-request(a)minnie.tuhs.org> To: <tuhs(a)minnie.tuhs.org> Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 7:00 PM Subject: TUHS Digest, Vol 9, Issue 1 > Send TUHS mailing list submissions to > tuhs(a)minnie.tuhs.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > tuhs-request(a)minnie.tuhs.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > tuhs-owner(a)minnie.tuhs.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of TUHS digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Location of a Coherent distribution? (Warren Toomey) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 11:45:40 +1000 > From: Warren Toomey <wkt(a)tuhs.org> > Subject: [TUHS] Location of a Coherent distribution? > To: The Unix Heritage Society <tuhs(a)tuhs.org> > Message-ID: <20040204014540.GB85382(a)minnie.tuhs.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Hi all, > Does anybody know of a distribution of Mark William's Coherent > available on-line, or if someone has a distribution could they make a > copy for me. Ditto for Idris. I'm particularly interested in their > header files, and how closely they match the contemporary Unix headers. > > Thanks, > Warren > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > TUHS mailing list > TUHS(a)minnie.tuhs.org > http://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs > > > End of TUHS Digest, Vol 9, Issue 1 > **********************************

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