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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