USER question

Fairlight fairlite at fairlite.com
Tue Dec 16 17:42:48 PST 2008


Four score and seven years--eh, screw that!
At about Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 05:38:06PM -0800,
Bill Campbell blabbed on about:
> 
> I wrote the program that handles this in C, using low-level terminal
> handling code that I wrote in 1985 or for my Unify RDBMS based accounting
> software.  It took less than 600 lines of C code (less if one removes
> comments), and runs FilePro via a pair of pipes to handle input and output.
> I think the last time I compiled this was in November 2003 so it would
> require a bit of study to figure out what I did again :-).

*emulates Exorcist head-spin scene*

> It doesn't require rebooting.  There are utilities to list shared memory
> usage, clear it, etc., but I always have to poke around to remember what

Intedestink.  Veddy intedestink.

mark->
-- 
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the way. But I'll get the job done" --Captain Matthew Gideon, "Crusade"


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