somewhat OT: configure and mterm was Re: Vintage terminals

In article <ee5521f80703090937j66401c1ese7320c4775d26458 at mail.gmail.com>, "Bill Pechter" <pechter at gmail.com> writes: I don't see it so different now; there are places you trust and places you don't. You're just saying in the old days you could trust newsgroup distributions. Its always been this way. On PCs there have always been lots of "free utilities" (even before "PC" meant IBM PC or compatible) for which you never had source. Some of them were carrying virus payloads. A copyparty could be a dangerous thing and it might not have even been intentional by the person who transmitted the virus to you. Commercial software has even gone out with virus infections on it. As I say, at some point you have to establish some trust in other people's software. How you do it is up to you. -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 draft available for download <http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/download/index.html> Legalize Adulthood! <http://blogs.xmission.com/legalize/>