RE: retail -reply

[mark.teicher () predictive com]

Yes, there was a perl version!! that was used at Fidelity.. I seem to 
recall it had a couple of different report formats also..  I think it was 
more than just a 15 minute hack though..


/mark

At 03:37 PM 3/18/99 -0500, Joseph Judge wrote:

> There was a perl version of "retail" we used in Fidelity.
> I'll ask around to see if its still there.
>
>        -joe
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-firewall-wizards () nfr net
> > [mailto:owner-firewall-wizards () nfr net]On Behalf Of Marcus J. Ranum
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 1999 1:30 PM
> > To: firewall-wizards () nfr net
> > Subject: retail
> >
> >
> >       Actually, I wrote retail before I went to TIS, and put
> > it in the Gauntlet baseline because it needed it. So I'm not
> > sure who the code really belongs to - I believe it belongs to
> > me. However, I wouldn't want to mess with Network Associates'
> > army of lawyers over a 15 minute coding hack. There's whole
> > chunks of Gauntlet code that are actually old libmjr code from
> > back when I worked at Welch Library and Hopkins Hospital. :)
> > The enargv() code, for example, came out of a MUD I wrote when
> > I was a researcher at University of MD. (as did the NFR interpreter)
> > Aaaah, compu-archeology.
> >
> >       For log checking, use Craig Rowland's stuff; it's good.
> >
> > PS: moral: never give your code to your employer. It serves
> > only to make them wealthy and gets you a warm feeling in
> > return. ;)
> >
> > mjr.
> > --
> > Marcus J. Ranum, CEO, Network Flight Recorder, Inc.
> > work - http://www.nfr.net
> > home - http://www.clark.net/pub/mjr