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Re: The ASP nightmare: a description (was Re: OSD && DFSG - different purposes - constructive suggestion!)



Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 07:45:36PM +0100, Bernhard R. Link wrote:
> > If anyone had claimed such any kind of distribution
> > in this area some years ago, I'd taken it for a good joke[1].
> [...]
> > [1] compareable to a cat /bin/clear on a Solaris of the right version.
> 
> I presume this was like Solaris's /bin/true, which was something like
> this:
> 
>   #!/bin/sh
> 
>   # THIS IS UNPUBLISHED PROPRIETARY SOURCE OF AT&T.  IF YOU DISTRIBUTE IT
>   # YOU WILL BE LABELLED AN ENEMY COMBATANT, YOUR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS
>   # IGNORED, AND EITHER HELD IN DETENTION IN GUANTANAMO BAY FOR THE REST
>   # OF YOUR LIFE, OR SUMMARILY EXECUTED, AT THE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S
>   # PLEASURE.
> 
>   exit 0
> 
> Is that about right?

Sun Microsystems Inc.   SunOS 5.7       Generic October 1998
 
phoenix{mschulth}1: cat /bin/clear
#!/usr/bin/sh
#       Copyright (c) 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989 AT&T
#         All Rights Reserved
 
#       THIS IS UNPUBLISHED PROPRIETARY SOURCE CODE OF AT&T
#       The copyright notice above does not evidence any
#       actual or intended publication of such source code.
 
#ident  "@(#)clear.sh   1.8     96/10/14 SMI"   /* SVr4.0 1.3   */
#       Copyright (c) 1987, 1988 Microsoft Corporation
#         All Rights Reserved
 
#       This Module contains Proprietary Information of Microsoft
#       Corporation and should be treated as Confidential.
 
# clear the screen with terminfo.
# if an argument is given, print the clear string for that tty type
 
/usr/bin/tput ${1:+-T$1} clear 2> /dev/null
exit
phoenix{mschulth}2:



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