Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 17:40:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Kevin Eliuk <cagey@kevin.sunshine.net> To: Chris Coleman <chris@bb.cc.wa.us>, FreeBSD-Hackers <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org>, FreeBSD-questions <FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Re: "learn" unix tool Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970429172423.245A-100000@kevin.sunshine.net>
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Chris, >From my records you recieved this, but it did not reach hackers or questions, so I am resending. Hope you like things in triplicate :-) [ .. clip ] On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, Chris Coleman wrote: > Kevin, I have been thinking, and I decided this morning that the 'learn' > and the 'help' need to be separate. The 'help' command needs to be a one > page help screen that introduces FreeBSD, the command line, man pages, and > the learn tool. Unless you stop me, i will go a head and write a 'help' > screen and send it to you. I should have it done this week. > > Who else is working on this project? Let them know what I intend to do. > It's just you and me kid :) > thanks I wrote to Joerg and below is the response. In hind sight I should have posted this to you. I'll also post this to hackers and questions to see if anyone will have any leads on this. [ clip here ] > 1) Do I(we) continue to write script on topic matter that I(we) > feel should be included and submit to you that you write the > interface around? It would probably be worth the while to first see who's responsible for the old Berkeley texts. They are clearly from the UCB, thus should be redistributable. What we'd need were: i) a statement of some official of the UCB that they think this is still valid as it stands there, and ii) a disclaimer from the current copyright holders of the Unix sources that they don't claim any rights on it (to make sure there's nothing inherited from the original UNIX sources in it). The latter is SCO, and i know that they are known for positive reactions for things like this. So the actual problem for both would probably be to find a mail address of someone responsible. If you want to do this, feel free to ask in the name of the FreeBSD Project. > 4) How can I(we) make the scripts an easy file for you to deal with? We should stick to the original way they are done. Maybe, if you're successful for point #1 above, we could even get the original unix learn command source. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) [ /clip here ] Thanks for the nudge :) _______________________________________ |\ /| JEAN CHRETIEN | \ kevin_eliuk@sunshine.net / | | \ Kevin G. Eliuk / | It's my party and you'll | /^\_________________________/^\ | run if I let you :-? | / \ | |/--===### Powered By FreeBSD 2.2.1 \| | www.freebsd.org | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ [ ../clip ]
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