Re: Time once again for tic tac toe

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 03:41:36PM +1000, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> I sent this to help-ncurses, but subsequently realized the list no
> longer seems to be used, let alone monitored.
> 
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-ncurses/ looks pretty sparse.

I recall some comment about this, but bug-ncurses has been the only
active list since Florian set it up in February 1998.

I requested in June 2002 that it be dropped, but that request was ignored.
There's no useful content on it.

(commenting in the ncurses FAQ would be pointless, of course).
 
> ----- Forwarded message from "G. Branden Robinson" <address@hidden> -----
> 
> Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2020 11:58:13 +1100
> From: "G. Branden Robinson" <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Time once again for tic tac toe
> User-Agent: NeoMutt/20180716
> 
> Hi Thomas,
> 
> The Austin Group is doing its part in the next issue of the POSIX
> standard to free up the namespace so "tack" can reclaim its rightful
> name of "tac" and permit an ncurses installation ship all of the
> commands tic, tac, and toe.
> 
> https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=877#c2425

I recall noticing this.

(I could expand on that, but it would be off-topic for this list).
 
> Just need to persuade the GNU coreutils team to yield now.  :)

I'm not expecting much.

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