Subject: Re: new package ideas.
To: Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@rz.uni-regensburg.de>
From: Simon Burge <simonb@netbsd.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 06/15/1999 21:49:53
Hubert Feyrer wrote:

> On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Simon Burge wrote:
> > ftp://ftp.slackware.org/pub/linux/slackware/source/a/procps/procps-2.0.2.tar.gz
> > 
> > The other option is to refer to the original comp.sources.unix shar file
> > and apply some of the procps patches (things like strcat->strncat) by
> > hand.
> > 
> > Any ideas on what would be cleanest and/or best to do?
> 
> As we don't support srpm, using the above URL sounds ok for me.
> BTW, any chance there's also a tload in there? :)

Yuck, yuck, yuck!  tload writes an ANSI clear screen and dumps a
screenfull of data.  I'll at least change it to use curses...  Thinking
more, it's such a simple program that I'd be better off writing it from
scratch because adding curses functionality will change ~90% of it
anyway!

Simon.