Lyle, 1) I would appreciate it if you do NOT post ON-LIST any of the contents of any private email I have sent to you, no matter how harmless you deem the content. It simply is not appropriate. If I want it posted, I will start the conversation that way or respond to an on-list message. FWI - I sent it directly to you so spare you of any possible adverse response being shown on-line, not that I thought there would be any. 2) I also offered to assist you in this project. Look through the initial responses to your post announcing the availability of these items. As I recall, several people offered to help. 3) The effort you are making to regenerate the sources of TSX-Plus is admirable. It is quite some job to be a one-man project leader, architect, and primary worker - plus work full time and have an actual life. I know 4) Why is it necessary to rebuild TSX-Plus from source before you can share it with hobbyists? Are the binaries non-existent or not usable? If I understood the scope of the problem, perhaps I (and others?) would be more supportive. Please don't misunderstand - resurrecting TSX-Plus and utilities is a neat thing to do, but how does it fit in with your earlier announcement? Stuart J ------------------------------ Message: 11 Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 07:20:36 -0700 From: Lyle Bickley <lbickley at bickleywest.com> Subject: Re: TSX sources, distribution, etc. To: "Stuart Johnson" <ssj152 at charter.net> Cc: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Message-ID: <200604190720.36844.lbickley at bickleywest.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Stuart, On Tuesday 18 April 2006 22:08, you wrote: How The source listings are already up on bitsavers - and one of my DCL (DEC Computer Lunch) buddies here in SV has written a special OCR program that is scanning the listings to re-create the original MACRO sources of TSX. So there's plenty going on (no commitments on that totally happening, timing, etc.). "Ridiculous" is in the mind of the beholder. Yes, I could have taken the time to put up the TSX website as opposed to obtaining every RL02 pack and SMD drive I could from S&H, preserving the contents, etc. But I figured that "exercise", which took weeks of my time was more important than "releasing" TSX code. I'm required under my agreement with S&H to have a website where I can "log" and "verify" to a reasonable extent that only hobbiests will be downloading the system, etc. I am committed to getting TSX into the hands of the "folks" - but I estimate that it will take a week or so of my time - contiguous - to do it. That hasn't happened yet - but I promise it will. Regards, Lyle -- Lyle Bickley Bickley Consulting West Inc. Mountain View, CA http://bickleywest.com "Black holes are where God is dividing by zero"