Back to hacking!

After a loong time I got my hands dirty with some ugly looking C code.

Managed to add in a new feature in x3270 in pretty quick time! Feels
good, really good.

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The Shaolin said…
A comment not relevant to this post per se ... if you don't have any issues, can you enable ATOM feed on your blog?
9:41 am
Darth Chatri said…
I have enabled the atom feed ages ago.
http://adityag.blogspot.com/atom.xml
12:15 am
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