On Monday, 31 August 2020 at 8:03:32 +1000, Dave Horsfall wrote: > [ I seem to have missed the post to which this refers ]
Sorry, I nearly missed this one because you didn't change the Subject: line. > On Sun, 30 Aug 2020, Niclas Zeising wrote: >>> Exactly. Another case in point: x11/xtset. Maintenance stopped in >>> 1993, 11 days after the FreeBSD project came into existence. It works Well, no, he quoted: On Sunday, 30 August 2020 at 9:27:07 +1000, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > > Exactly. Another case in point: x11/xtset. Maintenance stopped in > ... > What does "xtset" do that the following script does not? I picked it up > from $JOB a couple of decades ago. > > /usr/local/bin/wintit: > ... It inserts text in the same control sequence, but formats them based on format âmetavariables". From the man page (which I'll send you separately): xtset -t %u (%T) %h:%D might set the title text to root (ttyp0) myhost:usr/src Clearly it's not rocket science, which is why it has worked well until some wise person decided that predicates are no longer acceptable in C (see https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=249017). It still works well. Greg -- Sent from my desktop computer. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. This message is digitally signed. If your Microsoft mail program reports problems, please read http://lemis.com/broken-MUA
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