Re: xv and VMS

2017-05-17 Thread Peter Coghlan via cctalk
> > I ask because I've been scraping together patches for xv and collecting > them into a Github repo[1]. I've finished adding all the patches > collected by Greg Roelofs, patches from OpenBSD, and now I'm working on > eliminating unsafe calls like strcpy() and sprintf(). Could I get some of

Re: xv and VMS

2017-05-16 Thread Richard Loken via cctalk
On Wed, 17 May 2017, David Griffith via cctalk wrote: I ask because I've been scraping together patches for xv and collecting them into a Github repo[1]. I've finished adding all the patches collected by Greg Roelofs, patches from OpenBSD, and now I'm working on eliminating unsafe calls like

Re: xv and VMS

2017-05-16 Thread David Griffith via cctalk
On Tue, 16 May 2017, Peter Coghlan via cctalk wrote: Is anyone out there using X11 on VMS and the xv image viewer? Yes. Why do you ask? I ask because I've been scraping together patches for xv and collecting them into a Github repo[1]. I've finished adding all the patches collected by Gr

Re: xv and VMS

2017-05-16 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg via cctalk
> The motion carries. > > Retirement as an attempt to gain more free time just doesn't work. You people obviously don't know Richard. He will hrumph and blunderbuss his way through local space-time until reality bends to his requirements. Also, the word "free" is never a descriptor of "time" i

RE: xv and VMS

2017-05-16 Thread Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
The motion carries. bill From: Jay West [jw...@classiccmp.org] Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2017 5:16 PM To: 'Bill Gunshannon'; 'General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts' Subject: RE: xv and VMS 3rd -Original Messa

RE: xv and VMS

2017-05-16 Thread Jay West via cctalk
3rd -Original Message- From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Bill Gunshannon via cctalk Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2017 2:28 PM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: RE: xv and VMS I'll second that.

RE: xv and VMS

2017-05-16 Thread Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
I'll second that. bill From: cctalk [cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] on behalf of Cameron Kaiser via cctalk [cctalk@classiccmp.org] Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2017 12:37 PM To: rllo...@telus.net; cctalk@classiccmp.org Subject: Re: xv and VMS >

Re: xv and VMS

2017-05-16 Thread Richard Loken via cctalk
On Tue, 16 May 2017, Cameron Kaiser wrote: Retirement as an attempt to gain more free time just doesn't work. I have already learned that in only four months. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV: "...underneath those tuques we wear, Athabasca, Alberta Canada : our heads are naked!"

Re: xv and VMS

2017-05-16 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
> I am now retired so maybe I will find > the time to get all that software glued together. Retirement as an attempt to gain more free time just doesn't work. -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com

Re: xv and VMS

2017-05-16 Thread Richard Loken via cctalk
On Tue, 16 May 2017, David Griffith via cctalk wrote: Is anyone out there using X11 on VMS and the xv image viewer? Yes, I am. My Alphaserver 4100 is down at the moment since I had to move it and it has been waiting four months for me to put it back together. XV works fine with VMS and there

Re: xv and VMS

2017-05-16 Thread Peter Coghlan via cctalk
> > Is anyone out there using X11 on VMS and the xv image viewer? > Yes. Why do you ask? > -- > David Griffith > d...@661.org > > A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. > Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? > A: Top-posting. > Q: What is the most annoying thing in