On Thursday, 9 July 2026 at 23:47:10 UTC, Damian McGuckin wrote:
On Thursday, 9 July 2026 at 07:49:22 UTC, ShadoLight wrote:
I would love to find what Walter posted when he implemented
those types in D and any documentation from the usage of those
types. Thanks in advance.
You mean posts on the Forums? Unfortunately I cannot help with
that. Even though the old www.digitalmars.com site did already
have a web interface to the Newsgroups at that time, the Wayback
machine did not archive the Newsgroup posts. For example, you can
see the message index on
https://web.archive.org/web/20050222131809/http://www.digitalmars.com/drn-bin/wwwnews?-b201+D, but you cannot open the individual messages.
I guess the reason is that the Wayback Machine does not support
NNTP. Likewise, the current Forums on dlang.org does not have
access to the old DigitalMars Newsgroup DB - if it ever did!
You would need someone to search on a archived copy of the old
DigitalMars Newsgroups DB and I have no idea who can do that or
if it even still exists!
