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From: Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere>
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Subject: Re: getting the most out of TWM
Date: 14 Jul 2024 18:22:17 -0300
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arnold@freefriends.org (Aharon Robbins) writes:

> In article <878qy4ttv2.fsf@enoch.nodomain.nowhere>,
> Mike Spencer  <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> wrote:
>
>> arnold@freefriends.org (Aharon Robbins) writes:
>>
>>> In article <87ttgtf1ck.fsf@enoch.nodomain.nowhere>,
>>> Mike Spencer  <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> wrote:
>>>
>>>> BTW, I run XEarth for my root window.  Does anybody have/know the
>>>> location of the source code for XEarth?  I'd hate to give it up when
>>>> I'm eventually forced into 64 bits and I seem to have lost the source
>>>> if I ever had it.
>>> 
>>> I've put xearth 1.1 up on my site: https://www.skeeve.com/xearth-1.1.tar.gz
>>
>> Excellent!  Splendid!  Compiles and behaves as expected with my
>> existing markerfile and usual command line.  And I'll have it if/when
>> the dreaded departure from the trailing edge of technology to 64 bits
>> occurs.
>>        [snip]
>>TYVM!
> 
> You're welcome.

Oy!  A quick look at your home page reveals an attributed quote from
Yours Truly!  Fame (or is that notoriety?) comes in very tiny snippets.

A similar snippet unrelated to computers may be found on page 2 of

https://www.rockyforge.org/newsletters/rfn_v6i12.pdf

Good yarns related to otherwise inexplicable objects found in the lab
(basement, server room, wiring cabinet etc.) are less traditional than
those from the blacksmith shop but not entirely unknown (magic switch?).

> I have some older versions as well, it seems.
> Please email me privately if you are interested.

Noted, tnx.

-- 
Mike Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada