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Re: Tradeoffs between DEC & MIT servers

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From: Michael Meissner
Date: Sun, 09 Sep 1990 22:01
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In article <26E9DDD7.8886@orion.oac.uci.edu>
iglesias@orion.oac.uci.edu (Mike Iglesias) writes:

| In article <MEISSNER.90Sep8225817@osf.osf.org> meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner) writes:
| > [... stuff deleted ...]
| >I use a hacked version of the X11R4 xconsole contributed software.
| >Here is the shar of my current changes (it's a complete shar, so you
| >don't need to get the original).  Earlier versions ran on DECwindows,
| >but I may have changed things about when I went to X11R4.  You
| >definately need to define XAW_BC for Athena Widget bug compatibility
| >mode.
| 
| I'm curious why you needed to hack xconsole.  I'm using it straight
| from the the R4 sources on DECstations running Ultrix 3.0/3.1/4.0
| with no problems, althought I'm not using getcons.

Because I added some features.

    1)	I added an option to ignore lines matching a regexp.
    2)	I completely skip \r in messages (I hate the ^M that comes up)
    3)	I added an option to print the message date if the message is
	more than 5 minutes older than the previous message.
    4)	I added an option to ring the bell when getting a new message.
    5)	I fixed where somebody's mail/news agent split some long lines.
    6)	I made it work with the Ultrix include files before I moved to R4.
    7)	I made ^G's in the output ring the bell.
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Michael Meissner	email: meissner@osf.org		phone: 617-621-8861
Open Software Foundation, 11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA, 02142

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From: meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner)
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Subject: Re: Tradeoffs between DEC & MIT servers
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