[9fans] Ancient History: "Electronic Mail Without Aliases"

2013-02-10 Thread a
Does anyone on the list have a copy of or pointer to "Electronic Mail Without Aliases", by Elliott and Lesk? It's referenced in the 8th Edition Unix manual, but I've never read it (and only have vol1 of the manual).

Re: [9fans] 3e

2013-02-10 Thread David du Colombier
> How was 3E different from 2E and from 4E? The different prefaces are a good summary: http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/man/preface.html http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/man/preface3.html http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/man/preface4.html > 2e + auth + 9p2k = 3e 9P2000 was part of the Fourth Edition.

Re: [9fans] 3e

2013-02-10 Thread erik quanstrom
On Mon Feb 11 00:29:46 EST 2013, skip.tavakkol...@gmail.com wrote: > i've not checked the 3e CD i have, but i'm pretty sure 9p2k was > released with 4e (or just before). > > 2e to 3e also included a rewrite of acme from original alef to c; and > alef was left behind. > > btw, i see 6c in 2nd ed,

Re: [9fans] 3e

2013-02-10 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
i've not checked the 3e CD i have, but i'm pretty sure 9p2k was released with 4e (or just before). 2e to 3e also included a rewrite of acme from original alef to c; and alef was left behind. btw, i see 6c in 2nd ed, but it is not mentioned in the compiler paper; was that the i960? -Skip On Sun,

Re: [9fans] 3e

2013-02-10 Thread erik quanstrom
> 3e + venti + fossil = 4e what about 9p2000? - erik

Re: [9fans] 3e

2013-02-10 Thread Venkatesh Srinivas
How was 3E different from 2E and from 4E? -- vs;

Re: [9fans] 3e

2013-02-10 Thread Steve Simon
> Not sure why the licensing question came up. My fault, I was just a little unsure about copying the distribution floppies that VN had produced, I thought that checking with Charles would be polite. It turns out its all academic as I can only find the 2nd ed floppies, the 3rd ed one(s) if I ever

Re: [9fans] 3e

2013-02-10 Thread Benjamin Huntsman
Not sure why the licensing question came up. It was free back then, so I don't know why it wouldn't be now, unless Bell Labs revoked the previous license. More than anything I was trying to figure out the last release date. I've got a plan9.9gz file dated 20010327, and some odd patch files, th

[9fans] chess?

2013-02-10 Thread trebol
Hello all, How do you play chess with plan9? I saw a gnuchess version in the games's man page of the first edition: doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/1st_edition/manual.pdf Any board also? Thanks in advance, trebol.

Re: [9fans] 3e

2013-02-10 Thread David du Colombier
I have a copy of the Third Edition Plan 9 CD and floppy images. It is dated from 2000-06-07. I may distribute them if the license permit it. -- David du Colombier

Re: [9fans] 3e

2013-02-10 Thread steve
ok, i was concerned that there might be issues of "mechanical copyright" as i bought it from you (VN) - though i don't really understand such laws. i will copy the disks if i can find a floppy drive. - Steve On 10 Feb 2013, at 10:27, Charles Forsyth wrote: > > On 10 February 2013 09:18, Stev

Re: [9fans] 3e

2013-02-10 Thread Steve Simon
I have a set of floppies somwhere but I don't have a floppy drive at home, if no one gets there first I and Charles doesn't mind I will put the images on sources on Monday. FYI I put some old stuff, though none of it 3rd ed, in /n/sources/steve/historic/* -Steve