16 May
2017
16 May
'17
12:18 a.m.
Is anyone out there using X11 on VMS and the xv image viewer?
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David Griffith
dave at 661.org
A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
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16 May
16 May
6:06 a.m.
Is anyone out there using X11 on VMS and the xv image viewer?
Yes. Why do you ask?
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David Griffith
dave at 661.org
A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
Still a great sig!
Regards,
Peter Coghlan
8:30 p.m.
On Tue, 16 May 2017, Peter Coghlan via cctalk wrote:
I ask because I've been scraping together patches for xv and collecting
them into a Github repo[1]. I've finished adding all the patches
collected by Greg Roelofs, patches from OpenBSD, and now I'm working on
eliminating unsafe calls like strcpy() and sprintf(). Could I get some of
you VMS people to check out my work and submit any necessary changes?
My overall goal here is to clean up assorted bitrot and somehow convince
John Bradley to loosen the license. I believe that I have the most
up-to-date codebase of xv available at the moment.
[1] https://github.com/DavidGriffith/xv
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David Griffith
dave at 661.org
A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
Is anyone out
there using X11 on VMS and the xv image viewer?
Yes. Why do you ask?
17 May
17 May
5:35 p.m.
I ask because I've been scraping together patches for xv and collecting
them into a Github repo[1]. I've finished adding all the patches
collected by Greg Roelofs, patches from OpenBSD, and now I'm working on
eliminating unsafe calls like strcpy() and sprintf(). Could I get some of
you VMS people to check out my work and submit any necessary changes?
Great. Thanks for asking. I'll take a look.
My overall goal here is to clean up assorted bitrot and somehow convince
John Bradley to loosen the license. I believe that I have the most
up-to-date codebase of xv available at the moment.
What's not to like about the license? I've been using using XV for free for
over 20 years within the terms of the license. I liked it so much I decided
to register and pay up anyway a few years ago even though the license said I
could continue to use it for free.
[1] https://github.com/DavidGriffith/xv
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David Griffith
dave at 661.org
A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
Regards,
Peter Coghlan.
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