From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Nov 29 15:19:17 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA12671 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 29 Nov 1996 15:19:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from po1.glue.umd.edu (po1.glue.umd.edu [129.2.128.44]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA12665 for ; Fri, 29 Nov 1996 15:19:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from modem.eng.umd.edu (modem.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.187]) by po1.glue.umd.edu (8.8.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA16685; Fri, 29 Nov 1996 18:19:11 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by modem.eng.umd.edu (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA05350; Fri, 29 Nov 1996 18:19:10 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: modem.eng.umd.edu: chuckr owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 18:19:00 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@modem.eng.umd.edu To: Stefan Molnar cc: "Donald J. Maddox" , hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Inferno for FreeBSD. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 29 Nov 1996, Stefan Molnar wrote: > > > > I checked out the web page, it looked interesting, so I sent a polite > > > message asking for a FreeBSD port. I got a quick reply saying that one is > > > indeed planned. > > > > That's interesting... I inquired about this several days ago and > > got a > > quick reply saying that one was _not_ planned, as there seemed to be > > little > > demand. Maybe your request tipped the scales... :-) > > I asked, and never got a reply. > > Stefan Excuse me, when I sent my post (with the included reply from Bell Labs) my mailer interpreted it as am incoming mail to me, and sent it back to me. Did anyone else get a trucated reply, without the included excerpt? I'm going to include it again, but I'll make sure it's got ">" in front of all the lines, so that doesn't happen again --- here it is: > From philw@plan9.bell-labs.com Fri Nov 29 17:48:43 1996 > Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 11:19:28 -0500 > From: philw@plan9.bell-labs.com > To: chuckr@Glue.umd.edu > the binary distribution on free on the web allows you to > play with the system. In addition we are licensing source > to Universities at no charge. > A port to FreeBSD is planned. > phil > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 3.0 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------