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- From: Ralf.Brown@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU
- Newsgroups: alt.hackers
- Subject: Re: My first nntp hack
- Message-ID: <2b6289e2@ralf>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 11:21:54 GMT
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- Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science
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- In-Reply-To: <1993Jan21.225301.12359@ultb.isc.rit.edu>
- Originator: ralf@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU
- Nntp-Posting-Host: b.gp.cs.cmu.edu
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- In article <1993Jan21.225301.12359@ultb.isc.rit.edu>, tad@ROCK (Tad Hunt) wrote:
- } Well, CMU used to have a drink machine from what I've heard, but I
- }don't think it was accessable from the internet.. Ours, however, IS
-
- Sure was. 'finger coke@cmu-cs-a' and later 'finger coke@a.cs.cmu.edu'
- would get you the machine's status from anywhere on the then-Arpanet. It
- disappeared in about 1987, when the local bottler switched bottle types,
- requiring a new machine. We currently have an M&M machine accessible to
- a 'junkfood' program which I believe uses specific IP ports rather than
- 'finger'.
-
- ObHack: a 'termcap' interface written entirely in Lisp. Near as I can
- tell, the only non-portable parts are the functions to set raw/cooked
- mode (for single-character input) and the use of a global variable
- containing the environment strings which is provided by CMU Common Lisp.
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