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Post #264,492
by broomberg
8/10/06 6:49:46 PM
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New About 21 years ago
I used to write termcap entries for a living.
Post #264,493
by hnick
8/10/06 7:00:14 PM
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New YPB
Post #264,494
by broomberg
8/10/06 7:15:49 PM
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New Wasn't so bad.
I worked for a company called Telexpress. They has a terminal
emulater called Teleterm. The program was table driven, and
allowed you to create new terminal definitions.

A customer might buy a canned system from a vertical market
vendor that included a server (Unix, Pick, Vax, etc) and some
terminals. The terminal could be ANYTHING. In those
days, new ones were popping up all the time. They would want
to hook up their PCs (days of original PC and XT) to the
system.

So they would send us a terminal and the manual. I would
review the manual and create a termcap entry for the terminal
if it did not exist. I would then reverse that and create
the table entries that our software would use to create a
new terminal.

Was a great education. I owe them a lot for it.
Post #264,497
by drewk
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8/10/06 5:05:33 PM
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New I think the term would be "pathological example"
Do you have any other examples of what you would consider decent code -- meaning something that you wouldn't re-write if given the time -- that exceed 10k lines?
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Post #264,502
by drewk
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8/10/06 5:08:45 PM
8/11/06 10:25:23 AM
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New Oops, time travelling on the reboot
Do you have any other examples of what you would consider decent code -- meaning something that you wouldn't re-write if given the time -- that exceed 10k lines?
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Post #264,504
by drewk
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8/10/06 5:10:16 PM
8/11/06 10:25:48 AM
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New No, really, that's what happened
Do you have any other examples of what you would consider decent code -- meaning something that you wouldn't re-write if given the time -- that exceed 10k lines?
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     I am SCREWED - (broomberg) - (71) - Aug. 9, 2006, 11:28:33 PM EDT
         :-( Get him a copy of UltraEdit. - (Another Scott) - (16) - Aug. 9, 2006, 11:44:53 PM EDT
             UltraEdit is great - (cforde) - Aug. 10, 2006, 01:40:00 AM EDT
             UE costs money. - (pwhysall) - (2) - Aug. 10, 2006, 08:11:17 AM EDT
                 OT: Shouldn't you be on your honeymoon? -NT - (Yendor) - (1) - Aug. 10, 2006, 08:40:50 AM EDT
                     he's gotta come up for air once in a while. ;-j -NT - (jbrabeck) - Aug. 11, 2006, 08:05:12 AM EDT
             That is one of the current Win choices. - (broomberg) - (11) - Aug. 10, 2006, 11:14:10 AM EDT
                 nano? - (Another Scott) - (1) - Aug. 10, 2006, 11:22:57 AM EDT
                     Install requested - (broomberg) - Aug. 10, 2006, 01:28:26 PM EDT
                 I use nano as my default editor. - (folkert) - (8) - Aug. 10, 2006, 12:29:22 PM EDT
                     Hmmm - (broomberg) - (7) - Aug. 10, 2006, 01:41:08 PM EDT
                         No "undo" - (broomberg) - (5) - Aug. 10, 2006, 02:01:34 PM EDT
                             Try this - (drewk) - (2) - Aug. 10, 2006, 02:04:09 PM EDT
                                 I've played with cream - (broomberg) - (1) - Aug. 10, 2006, 02:13:24 PM EDT
                                     I won't respond to that post - (drewk) - Aug. 10, 2006, 02:14:05 PM EDT
                             Undo is only necessary for htose who make mistaeks. - (Another Scott) - (1) - Aug. 10, 2006, 02:18:43 PM EDT
                                 You can force it to be the default - (folkert) - Aug. 10, 2006, 02:54:07 PM EDT
                         No, I use them all. I am not a programmer. - (folkert) - Aug. 10, 2006, 03:09:45 PM EDT
         Never "learned" vi, eh? I like him already! - (jb4) - (50) - Aug. 10, 2006, 09:46:17 AM EDT
             Sigh - (broomberg) - (49) - Aug. 10, 2006, 11:24:25 AM EDT
                 Well... - (jb4) - (37) - Aug. 10, 2006, 01:22:03 PM EDT
                     I think auto-complete is a macro - (drewk) - (36) - Aug. 10, 2006, 11:50:34 AM EDT
                         Depends on who you ask - (jb4) - (13) - Aug. 10, 2006, 01:23:37 PM EDT
                             So have them fix it - (broomberg) - (3) - Aug. 10, 2006, 01:42:41 PM EDT
                                 Yeah...comma...right - (jb4) - (2) - Aug. 10, 2006, 02:08:21 PM EDT
                                     Sigh - (broomberg) - (1) - Aug. 10, 2006, 02:16:44 PM EDT
                                         I don't make large edits on these systems - (jb4) - Aug. 10, 2006, 03:50:03 PM EDT
                             Is vim the windows version of vi? - (Nightowl) - (8) - Aug. 11, 2006, 02:23:29 PM EDT
                                 Nope, 'vim' is 'vi, improved' - (drewk) - (7) - Aug. 11, 2006, 02:35:10 PM EDT
                                     I seem to have both kinds - (Nightowl) - (6) - Aug. 11, 2006, 02:50:41 PM EDT
                                         If it has multiple levels of 'undo' it's probably vim -NT - (drewk) - (5) - Aug. 11, 2006, 02:55:26 PM EDT
                                             Hmmm I only know of one undo command. - (Nightowl) - (4) - Aug. 11, 2006, 03:08:10 PM EDT
                                                 What's the command you use to start it? - (jake123) - (3) - Aug. 11, 2006, 07:37:30 PM EDT
                                                     vi :) - (Nightowl) - (2) - Aug. 12, 2006, 12:08:55 PM EDT
                                                         Of course vim can be aliased to "vi"... - (jb4) - (1) - Aug. 15, 2006, 03:08:41 PM EDT
                                                             Re: Of course vim can be aliased to "vi"... - (Nightowl) - Aug. 16, 2006, 02:32:36 AM EDT
                         Yes, I mean vim - (broomberg) - (21) - Aug. 10, 2006, 01:25:05 PM EDT
                             Was I right about that being a plugin? - (drewk) - (20) - Aug. 10, 2006, 01:35:37 PM EDT
                                 No idea - (broomberg) - (19) - Aug. 10, 2006, 01:44:20 PM EDT
                                     Hmm, gvim vs vim - (drewk) - (18) - Aug. 10, 2006, 02:02:46 PM EDT
                                         I prefer gvim - (broomberg) - Aug. 10, 2006, 02:15:25 PM EDT
                                         No law says you have to use a mouse and scroolbars - (jb4) - (16) - Aug. 10, 2006, 03:53:36 PM EDT
                                             :7000<ENTER> or 7000G -NT - (broomberg) - (2) - Aug. 10, 2006, 04:59:30 PM EDT
                                                 But the day goes faster hitting Page Down 200x. ;-) -NT - (Another Scott) - Aug. 10, 2006, 05:01:30 PM EDT
                                                 Assuming, of course, that you know the target line... - (jb4) - Aug. 10, 2006, 05:07:21 PM EDT
                                             No, that's not what I was going to say - (drewk) - (11) - Aug. 10, 2006, 05:20:44 PM EDT
                                                 I've seen enough of them. - (admin) - Aug. 10, 2006, 05:22:32 PM EDT
                                                 Here - (broomberg) - (7) - Aug. 10, 2006, 06:20:39 PM EDT
                                                     And the last time you needed to edit /etc/termcap was...? -NT - (Yendor) - (6) - Aug. 10, 2006, 06:34:12 PM EDT
                                                         About 21 years ago - (broomberg) - (5) - Aug. 10, 2006, 06:49:46 PM EDT
                                                             YPB -NT - (hnick) - (1) - Aug. 10, 2006, 07:00:14 PM EDT
                                                                 Wasn't so bad. - (broomberg) - Aug. 10, 2006, 07:15:49 PM EDT
                                                             I think the term would be "pathological example" - (drewk) - Aug. 10, 2006, 05:05:33 PM EDT
                                                             Oops, time travelling on the reboot - (drewk) - Aug. 11, 2006, 10:25:23 AM EDT
                                                             No, really, that's what happened - (drewk) - Aug. 11, 2006, 10:25:48 AM EDT
                                                 10K lines? Pshaw. - (pwhysall) - (1) - Aug. 11, 2006, 03:01:08 AM EDT
                                                     Yes, I **did** know that. - (jb4) - Aug. 15, 2006, 03:10:51 PM EDT
                                             That's what incremental search is for... -NT - (admin) - Aug. 10, 2006, 05:22:12 PM EDT
                 Emacs. - (admin) - (10) - Aug. 10, 2006, 11:50:13 AM EDT
                     You can do that in vi, too - (drewk) - (9) - Aug. 10, 2006, 11:54:26 AM EDT
                         I don't see that in the man page. - (admin) - (4) - Aug. 10, 2006, 12:26:49 PM EDT
                             Nope, it's a plugin - (drewk) - (3) - Aug. 10, 2006, 12:38:20 PM EDT
                                 Looks somewhat similar - (admin) - (2) - Aug. 10, 2006, 12:44:37 PM EDT
                                     Yeah, it's not as general-purpose - (drewk) - (1) - Aug. 10, 2006, 12:55:09 PM EDT
                                         Right. - (admin) - Aug. 10, 2006, 12:57:19 PM EDT
                         nano can edit files on remote machines... - (folkert) - (3) - Aug. 10, 2006, 12:27:34 PM EDT
                             Emacs is as simple as you make it. - (admin) - (2) - Aug. 10, 2006, 12:32:21 PM EDT
                                 "Modal == teh sukc" for newbies, indeedly do. - (folkert) - (1) - Aug. 10, 2006, 12:55:19 PM EDT
                                     What bad habits would they be? (new thread) - (static) - Aug. 14, 2006, 01:10:34 AM EDT
         why cant he use the xeditor on solaris? -NT - (boxley) - (1) - Aug. 10, 2006, 02:27:08 PM EDT
             'X' - not character mode -NT - (broomberg) - Aug. 10, 2006, 05:02:43 PM EDT
         Emacs with CUA Mode? - (altmann) - Aug. 10, 2006, 06:19:38 PM EDT

LRPD that. Now.
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