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- From: jonham@alumni.cs.colorado.edu (Jon Hamilton)
- Newsgroups: alt.sources
- Subject: Re: Looking for the login programme source
- Message-ID: <1991Aug29.004500.13162@colorado.edu>
- Date: 29 Aug 91 00:45:00 GMT
- References: <19167@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> <MELLON.91Aug28125835@nigiri.pa.dec.com> <19211@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
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- In article <19211@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> djenner@arthur.Eng.Sun.COM (Doug Jenner) writes:
- >In article <MELLON.91Aug28125835@nigiri.pa.dec.com> mellon@nigiri.pa.dec.com (Ted Lemon) writes:
- >>
- >>Or, you could browse through the bsd source archives - I believe that
- >>there's a functional login program there. Doug, get a life -
- >>spending gazillions of dollars on a source license just so that you
- >>can hack the /bin/login program would be totally ridiculous.
- >>
- >> _MelloN_
- >
- >Of course it is. But asking for proprietary source in a public forum is
- >just as ridiculous.
-
- You don't suppose that the original poster could have been asking for a
- pointer to someone who had already done any porting necessary to make it
- work on his machine? You know, that feeling of not wanting to reinvent
- the wheel....
-
- >
- >D.
- >--
- >_Doug Jenner_ Model: Homo Sapiens, version 0.25, Alpha release
- >djenner@sun.com
- >
- >AnswerBook- because you just can't grep dead trees.
-
-
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- Jon Hamilton
- jonham@alumni.cs.colorado.edu
- or hamilton@kickapoo.cs.iastate.edu
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