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> Andreas,
> I'm glad you like Web Kit. I have to stress again that the
> real thanks has to go to Steve Elmer and Mike Belshe who did
> the job of porting the HTTPD and LYNX to MPE/iX...

I would like to heartily second the thanks to Steve and Mike.  As best
as I recall, Steve concentrated on porting the BSD libraries/headers
(the BSD environment, as in FreeBSD, not BSD sockets which was CSY)
and Mike took just the necessary chunks of that to port httpd.  The
original httpd port had "local" copies of the BSD parts; the port on
my opus server builds httpd with Steve's BSD port directly.  Somewhere
along the way came Mark Klein who did the Gnu port (perhaps Mark and
Steve collaborated; they both turned out some Gnu stuff, but Mark did
gcc which was a *major* effort in comparison).  Has anyone tried to
build httpd with gcc?

Anyway... point I wanted to make was there are many MPE experts who are
intimidated by Posix/unix, and many more Unix experts who are
intimidated by Posix/MPE; but very few who can freely jump back and
forth and make things happen.  Their numbers are decreasing.  Time to
recruit :-)

> If you prefer using Robelle's QEDIT you might consider to add
> an alias qedit=/ROBELLE/PUB/QEDIT to your (ot AUTHOR.WEB's)
> .profile to make life a little easier.

Should we alias, or make links in /usr/local/bin (assuming you have
installed Gnu or other ported package)?  The latter seems to make more
sense (think about telnet, ftp, ping, etc).

> I also use alias mpe="callci ci,2" to allow for easy switching
> to (child) CI and back to the shell. Using a child CI allows
> keeping the pwd/HPCWD whereas exiting and re-entring the shell
> would cause (the default) /etc/profile throw me to $HOME again.

I won't repeat my /etc/profile discourse again <grin>.

Jeff Kell <[log in to unmask]>