Need a little assistance porting 'boggle' from NetBSD

Jon Nathan jon at rupture.net
Tue Dec 28 13:13:49 PST 2004


* Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> [12-28-2004 15:57]:
>
> On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 03:00:10PM -0500, Jon Nathan wrote:
> 
> > If anyone could help me get this one last bit to work, that would
> > be great.  (I emailed Barry Brachman, listed as the original auther,
> > but got no response.)  The included 'patch-af' shows where I've tried
> > to add clear-screen calls.
> 
> ISTR that a long time ago FreeBSD received a request to remove this
> from /usr/ports/games by the owner of the Boggle trademark, which is
> why you don't see it here any more.  We shouldn't add it back in ports
> if so.
> 
> Kris

That's a shame.  In any case, I received help off-list and fixed the
problem.  I guess I'll keep the port to myself.  I wonder how NetBSD
gets away with it.

Oh well,

-Jon

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Jon Nathan
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