System III Sources + catalog
H. Morrow Long [Systems Center]
long at ittatc.ATC.ITT.UUCP
Mon Jun 17 16:28:44 AEST 1985
> But much of that won't work on my poor old System III system. So my
> question: is there someone out there who keeps, tracks, and catalogs
> the software that is posted to the net?......................
> ......
> * Steven List @ Benetics Corporation * (415) 940-6300
> * {cdp,greipa,idi,oliveb,sun,tolerant}!bene!luke!steven
A colleague of mine (Ken Nawyn) and I have been pondering this
question for awhile and I would like to present to the Usenet
community an idea (to get feedback). We were discussing what
we could do to help the Unix community (and bring about
widespread Unix usage, Utopia in the third millenia, the usual
things, etc., etc.) and came up with the idea of maintaining a
public domain Unix Software catalog or list. This sprang from
an precursor project (a list of publicly available device
drivers and contacts) maintained here by a previous employee
here (Alan S. Watt), we would enlarge upon this concept to
encompass the entire range of pd software. We would be
performing the necessary editing and maintenence on our own time
as a free service; we cannot distribute software source for
conflict of interest and proprietary reasons.
Here is the general scheme:
Authors of public domain source would send an entry to a
mailbox alias on our system in a specified form with several
predefined fields. We would collect, sort and edit the entries
into a catalog or list format. Once in a blue moon (say every
six months or a similar frequency) we could post the assembled
file to net.unix, net.sources or provide it to the moderator of
mod.unix or mod.sources. ONLY ENTRIES WITH AUTHORS WHO HAVE
PROVIDED A CONTACT ADDRESS, ARE WILLING TO SEND SOURCES TO ANY
REQUESTOR AND WILL PROVIDE (SOME MINIMAL LEVEL OF) SUPPORT
WOULD BE LISTED. We would not guaruntee that the listed
programs work (or even compile on some systems) and would
assume no liability for any aforesaid programs.
We could also set up an program on our 'uucp' front-end
machine to mail a copy of the current catalog to any user
requesting it (who would mail to a specified alias). It might
also be possibly to produce the document in a format such as
the Berkeley ~/mbox format, to allow the user to read it with
'mail -f' and reply to contacts directly.
Please tell us what you think and suggest additions,
improvements, etc. to this scheme. Send mail directly to
ittvax!long and ittvax!nawyn. Is this a good idea?
What should the form contain? Where should it be posted and
how frequently? What format would you like to see the output
catalog in?
Here is a sample prototype entry input form:
=======================================================================
Program Name: Vegamatic game
Program Type: Game
(other classes could be Education, Driver, Editor,
General Application, Business, System Software - OS,
Compilers, Emulators, Utilities, Mailer, Kludges and
Cute Hacks)
For CPU type: Litton (tm) Microwave Oven embedded system
(or any MC68000/Multibus or Ixian machine)
For UNIX type: Uni+ 2.4 (maybe v7 and 4.1bsd)
Availability: From site 'foo' via anon ftp, uucp or kermit.
Terms & Cond.: Documentation and a test program are available.
Contact: Foo Bar Mumble
c/o House Atreides
CHOAM Ltd.
1 Fremen Sietch
Arrakis, Imperium
1-(xxx)-xxx-xxxx Ext.xxxx
EM Addr: kremvax!astro!spacguild!choam!dune!atreid3!muad-dib
(or PaulA at Tabr.Atreides.Duchy.House@bene.ARPA)
Last (up)date: 01/01/5018 After Butlerian Jihad
(23:59:01 Galactic Standard Time)
Current vers.: S5R2V2.4.3
Description: This (3D bitmapped if displayed using a suspensor-globe
display) program is based on a crude merging of two
ancient Earth games: Rogomatic(tm) and Global
Thermonuclear War. It will play against itself and
plot strategies utilizing actual battlefield
conditions. It can (optionally) make use of Laser
Satelites and Particle Beam Weapons in Geo-Synchronous
Orbit, hunter-seeker Tleiaxu missiles or even Family
Atomics. Best played in real-time after large spice
consumption. Special debug mode allows folding space
and 'cheat mode' gives player prescience.
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H. Morrow Long
ITT-ATC Systems Center,
1 Research Drive Shelton, CT 06484
Phone #: (203)-929-7341 x. 634
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