[4549] in SIPB bug reports
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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Salvatore Valente)
Wed Apr 20 00:59:38 1994
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 94 00:58 EDT
From: svalente@quiche-lorraine.mit.edu (Salvatore Valente)
To: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
To: bug-sipb@mit
Subject: xalarm, xmemo, xyow,
xfortune
From: Salvatore Valente <svalente@mit.edu>
xalarm is, apparently, a silly little X program that gives you
somthing of an alarm clock. xmemo, xyow, and xfortune are shell
scripts that run xalarm with various options. I never heard of these
programs until just recently, when I was hunting down incorrect
symlinks in the sipb locker.
Someone should volunteer to maintain this suite. This will involve
the following tasks:
1) Move the three shell scripts from /mit/sipb/vaxbin to
/mit/sipb/common/bin.
2) Remove the three symlinks from each of rtbin, decmipsbin, and rsaixbin,
and replace them all with symlinks pointing to common/bin.
3) Build them for the Sun (and, if you choose, Linux.)
4) Make sure they work (I think there were app-defaults problems on
the RS6ks.)
5) Deny your existance of these programs, since nobody actually uses
them. :-)
(It's interesting to note that if these programs had appeared on
usenet in the last few months, they probably would have been installed
in the outland locker instead of the sipb locker. However, they
appeared in 1992, when there was no outland locker. Oh well.)
(P.S. I'm working on a readme file on installing/maintaining programs
in the sipb locker, but don't expect to see it anytime this year.)
Have a nice day.
-Sal.
