I'm afraid this document has become rather badly out of date. In particular, releases are now
primarily on SourceForge, not sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch; Please consult the GUSI project on
www.sourceforge.net for details. More to come here.
Table of contents
General questions
Linguistics
Eschatology
Questions
Well, you have it, don't you? You could always ask me for a copy by email.
The cool new way to get an updated version is by WWW in
"http://www.iis.ee.ethz.ch/~neeri/macintosh/gusi-qa.html". Should further
information (e.g., the manual), become available online in the future,
you'll find it on "http://err.ethz.ch/members/neeri/macintosh.html".
GUSI (the name officially stands for
Grand Unified Socket Interface :-) is a library that tries to emulate
BSD style sockets across various communication domains, various POSIX calls,
and, as of version 2, POSIX threads.
The most recent version of GUSI is always available in
sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch software/platform/macos/src/mw_c
The current release, which works with Metrowerks CodeWarrior 5 and the MPW SC[pp] and MrC[pp] compilers, is available in the above dictionary as:
GUSI_20.sit.bin
Replacement libraries if you use CodeWarrior 4 instead of 5 are in:
GUSI_20_CWPro4.sit.bin
Older versions of GUSI (in particular the older, CodeWarrior specific, CWGUSI releases) can be found in:
ftp.iis.ee.ethz.ch pub/neeri/GUSI/Old
Don't forget to specify *Binary* or Macbinary mode for transfer.
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it exhaustively and neither the question nor the answer are of general
interest.
Hard to tell. Currently, there are 180 subscribers to the GUSI
mailing list.
Most of you have probably pronounced it as "Gee You Ess Aye", which is
not the pronounciation I had in mind. The "correct" pronounciation most
closely resembles "Goosey", but the German "u" is a little shorter than
the English "oo".
GUSI 2 was developed under Knuth's literate programming methodology,
which aims to turn the published source code of a program into a
readable book. The title "Liber GUSI" (Latin for "The Book of GUSI")
is an allusion to works of occultist literature because ultimately, the
end result is still not very clear.
I finally released GUSI 2.0 on October 27, 1999. I will continue to maintain it in the future.
GUSI Q&A
/ 27Oct99
/ neeri