From: imp@boulder.parcplace.com (Warner Losh) Subject: Re: Proposal: E series for the SLS distribution Date: Mon, 9 Aug 1993 06:32:27 GMT
In article <1993Aug9.015646.1757@kf8nh.wariat.org>
bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery) writes:
>The free ObjectBuilder distribution from ParcPlace (thanks Werner!) is set up
>this way, as the "o" series. I think we'll need multiletter series names soon
>if everyone goes this way, though.
I chose the letter "o" because of OI and OB. I'd have picked OI if I
thought that it would have worked (don't know, never tried it). Given
that there are files named "diskxn" where x is the series name and n
is the number of the disk means you can't have more than three letters
in the name, or two if you have more than 9 disks. A quick peek at
the source shows that it is just gluing together the tokens with
$foo$bar, so this might work.
A quick question. Would people rather see a SLS format release for
software available via anonymous FTP? Or would you rather see one big
happy tar file? If multi-letter names are possible, would you rather
see the "o" series, or the "oi" series? Please email me with your
comments (or post here if they would be of interest to everybody).
Warner
-- Warner Losh imp@boulder.parcplace.COM ParcPlace Boulder I've almost finished my brute force solution to subtlety.