Re: Assigning privs to a program?

From: Thomas Dickey (dickey_at_saltmine.radix.net)
Date: 05/06/05 

Date: Fri, 06 May 2005 15:48:29 -0000

In comp.unix.programmer Dragan Cvetkovic <me@privacy.net> wrote:

>>> Most probably, both Teer and Stevens draw their inspiration (or did so)
>>> from the same source which I would also call a "UNIX folklore".
>>
>> indeed: the millions of books about termcap/terminfo, and just this matches.

> Care to mention some? Except these two in dispute, I only know about
> "termcap & terminfo" by John Strang, Linda Mui and Tim O'Reilly, last
> published in 1988 (by O'Reilly), but as I said, I am not too deep into the
> topic.

Your comment about "UNIX folklore" relies upon the assumptiont that there
are many people all saying the same thing. That's absurd of course (I
assume you meant your whole response sarcastically, since it cannot be
taken seriously). 

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey
http://invisible-island.net
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