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		JdeBP 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Multiple security issues in GNU Screen Port something like this to OpenBSD and then say that this sort of thing is not hard work. (-: It's very hard work, especially nowadays. The sweet spot was probably in the 1990s, when novices were still likely to know that prime sources of knowledge about this stuff were posts on Usenet, or shell archives of text files written by Daniel J. Bernstein. https://jdebp.uk/FGA/bernstein-on-ttys/ I speak from experience of being someone who did my own tweaks to screen in the 1980s, and who has written other similar programs from scratch.

masfuerte 7 months ago [–]

Cheers, that's interesting. There are a few instances of ([]) which look like broken links in:

https://jdebp.uk/FGA/bernstein-on-ttys/cttys.html

Tbf, they are probably all dead now anyway.

JdeBP 7 months ago | [–]

If I recall correctly (I transcribed that years ago.) they were lost in the original. They wouldn't have been links. It was written in 1991.

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