In article <199411152156.AA19743@carol.fwi.uva.nl>,
Frank van der Linden <vdlinden@fwi.uva.nl> wrote:
: martin@euterpe.owl.de (Martin Husemann) asked:
: 1. the sio package by Bill Wells (bill@twwells.com). You can find an
:    article about it in the November issue of Dr. Dobbs. There's an

Actually, the December issue. They send 'em out a month before
the date.

:    old beta in the pub/ddj/packages/sio directory on ftp.mv.com that
:    will only work for FreeBSD. This package has been ported to NetBSD.
:    A couple of weeks ago Bill Wells said on the port-i386 list something
:    like "If you really want it _now_, ask me".
:    I've only seen the old beta from ftp.mv.com and it looks good to me
:    (bidirectional, well structured, ...).

I put off sending it out because the 1.0 release was so close.
I'm going to be making improvements to it so that it is suitable
for integrating into the source tree and works with 1.0; this'll
happen fairly soon (this weekend, if Philcon leaves me any spare
time), at which time I'll send it out to beta.