Lars,

Interex would be interested in doing this type of web page.  However,
since Chris Bartram already has such a page... we wouldn't want to
duplicate his work.  We would link to it.

Regards, Deloy

On  2 Nov 97 at 13:16, Lars Appel wrote:

> At 06:03 31.10.1997 +0200, Neil wrote:
> >Jens has ported zip and unzip. ftp://nha.co.za/hp3000
>
> First of all, thanks to Jens and Neil for making pkzip/iX ;-) available.
>
> This thread (and similar ones in the past) reminds me of an underlying
> problem in the "porting to mpe" area that we still might want/need to
> address or resolve: The "looking for ..." or "has ... been ported" issue.
>
> As the porting efforts and results are distributed across the internet
> (or at least the HP3000-L related subset of the internet) we should
> probably try to setup some kind of "MPE/iX Porting Clearinghouse" web
> site/page where we collect (at least) links to all the jewels that are
> already available at various different sites. People who have ported
> something could "register" a short description and hyperlinks there and
> thus make life much easier for those who are looking for something. The
> "MPE/iX Porting Clearinghouse" might also be used to host a "suggestions
> page" and some "porting tips" docs or links to such docs.
>
> Just recall the magnificient "HP 3000 Product/Vendor Directory" that
> is available at www.3k.com (thanks to Chris Bartram and Brian Duncombe)
> and imagine the value of something similar being created and maintained
> for the "HP 3000 Freeware/Ports Directory"...
>
> Any volunteers out there!?
>
> Lars.
>
> PS: In my opinion we should not neccessarily restrict the above "Freeware
>     Directory" to things ported with the help of Posix. I would definitely
>     vote for also having links to jewels like LZW, Equater or NetMail...
>
>
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