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From: Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] python on plan 9
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 10:53:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010925105347.B27732@cackle.proxima.alt.za> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <001701c145ad$8bc6b9c0$a2b9c6d4@SOMA>; from Boyd Roberts on Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 12:33:41PM +0200

On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 12:33:41PM +0200, Boyd Roberts wrote:
>
> laura gave me a pointer to a tar of 2.1.1 so i have it
> on coma now.  long file names -- i'm gonna kill someone!
>
The thought of rationalising 4 megabytes of compressed sources is
even worse than worrying about long filenames (with spaces?).

I've been going through my collection of floppy disks and I'm amazed
how much software fitted on one or at best a few of these.  Good
stuff, too, on 360K floppies (I have some 90K floppies too :-)

++L


  reply	other threads:[~2001-09-25  8:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-09-24  3:09 Boyd Roberts
2001-09-24 14:20 ` Dan Cross
2001-09-24 16:51   ` Boyd Roberts
2001-09-25  9:23     ` pac
2001-09-25  9:13       ` Boyd Roberts
2001-09-25  8:15         ` Lucio De Re
2001-09-25 10:33           ` Boyd Roberts
2001-09-25  8:53             ` Lucio De Re [this message]
2001-09-25 13:22           ` pac
2001-09-24  3:43 anothy
2001-09-24  3:48 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-09-25 21:47   ` Sam Ducksworth
2001-09-25 22:02     ` Boyd Roberts
2001-09-24  3:50 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-09-26 15:25 Russ Cox
2001-09-26 13:32 ` Lucio De Re
2001-09-26 15:30 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-09-26 16:26 forsyth

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