HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: magus@netcom.com (John Schmid)
Subject: Re: Popular IBM FTP sites
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 92 13:29:54 GMT
Organization: Hellwell Enterprises Ltd.

In article <1992Aug28.080423.6132@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> kyrie@coos.dartmouth.edu (Thomas S. Marlowe) writes:

>I'm not new to FTP sites, but I do know that the list 
>currently provided is for shit.  I have gone through most
>ftp sites up to ee.umr.edu and most of the sites are either
>closed dwown or not of much use.  Does anyone have a revised
>list of *good* ftp sites for teh IBM and for the MAC?

If you are not new to FTP sites I don't see how you could have missed

wsmr-simtel20.army.mil     192.88.110.20

and one of the many sites that mirrors not only simtel20 but many other sites
around the world.

wuarchive.wustl.edu	128.252.135.4

ciao
john schmid


-- 
John Schmid		Internet: magus@netcom.com

  Do you ever feel like every day is a monday?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: boyd@ivy.cs.unca.edu (Mark Boyd)
Subject: Re: Best modem program w/VT102 and zmodem transfers?
Organization: University of North Carolina at Asheville
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 02:54:59 GMT


>>Try unicom.  It is a shareware program that I beleive you can ftp from
>>ftp.cica.indiana.edu.  It is a great program.

Unicom is a windows, not DOS, program. It is also the most obnoxious
nagware I ever had the displeasure to try. It may be a 'great program'
to you. To me it was a lesson in how quickly a windows program can
be trashed.

	Mark

PS The best DOS VT emulator is mskermit. Period. I like qmodem for
some of its flashy stuff, but it is a lousy VT emulator! So are all
the other major shareware terminal programs that I have tried ( every
one I know of, and I've been looking and trying since CP/M days). 

RBCOMM and COMMO are pretty good. Kermit is better. My solution? Right
now I'm shelled out of qmodem and running mskermit. If I want the
flash or to do zmodem, I just exit kermit back into qmodem.  I use
qmodem for things that don't need a good VT emulator and shell out
into kermit for those that do.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: etnbkkc@hisoy.etn.ericsson.se (Karlsen Bjorn)
Subject: PCTools DeLuxe -- upgrade to 7.1?
Reply-To: etnbkkc@etn.ericsson.se
Organization: Ericsson Telecom AS
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 16:52:44 GMT

I got an offer to upgrade my PCTools DeLuxe from 6.0 to 7.1

Why should I upgrade?

Why should I not upgrade?

I'm using (mostly) CPBackup, Compress and DiskFix.

-KKC-  etnbkkc@etn.ericsson.se
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: isc30054@nusunix2.nus.sg (CHOO KOH YAW)
Subject: Re: Q: Are the Baud Rate and BPS same?
Organization: National University of Singapore
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 06:08:40 GMT

Hope I dun confuse people more with this simple reply.

Buad is a measure of number of signal element per sec. Each signal
element, depending on the modulation technique used, can encode 1, 2, 3
or more bits in it. If only 1 bit is represented in 1 signal element,
then baud aprox bps (dun forget stopbit, chksum etc)

BPS - The normal bit per sec we know. So, BPS is more of what we need to
find out when buying a modem. But then, mot vendor dun tell this info.

More confused eh?

Kohyaw
"casablanca"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: DR DOS EMM386 Error
From: kmcvay@oneb.almanac.bc.ca (Ken Mcvay)
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 18:29:35 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: The Old Frog's Almanac, Vancouver Island, CANADA

In article <reichert.714863265@aloe1> reichert@rtsg.mot.com (Charles H. Reichert) writes:

>>EMM386 is apparently forced - perhaps because of SSTOR being in use, so QEMM
>>refuses to load, telling me another memory manager is already resident. If
>>someone from novell.com can clarify this for me, I'd appreciate hearing from
>>them, as I would indeed rather use QEMM...

>Any memory manager should be loaded first (if possible) and by itself.
>EMM386.SYS or QEMM.SYS, but not both
>HIMEM.SYS or HIDOS.SYS, but not both

One more time - EMM386.SYS loads _by itself_, without config.sys entry, but
I can't find out why, although I assume it's because of the SSTOR drives.. I
can't get rid of it...

(I may have to wipe the disk and reboot with QEMM.SYS, and THEN try using
SSTOR, but it's more work than I want to take on right now.)

-- 
"Walter Dejaco, of Reutte, a town in the Austrian Tyrol, who designed and
constructed the Auschwitz crematoria had no trouble in continuing to fulfil
building commissions. In 1963 he won warm praise from Bishop Rusk of
Innsbruck for the fine Presbytery he had built..." [Abram L. Sachar]
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: jem21176@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jon E. Meyer)
Subject: HELP me find the manual for Sharp's PC-7000!
Summary: I need the manual for the PC-7000! very old!
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 20:15:49 GMT

I just got one of the first portable computers around.

The PC-7000 by Sharp, and need the manual

Can you help?

Write me at jem21176@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
thanks.
From: eysg6676@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Ernesto Yi-Hsin Su)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Where is ART Computer System / Performance System?
Date: 25 Aug 92 20:51:36 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

I urgently need to contact the company that sold me a 386 last year.
They were advertised on the Sept. 91 issue of Computer Shopper,
under the name of ART Computer System or ART Marketing Group.
The 800 number on that ad no longer works.

On the receipt, their address was:

        Performance System
        1630 Oakland Road, Suite A205-2
        San Jose, CA 95131
        TEL: (408) 453-3335     FAX:(408)453-3414

I tried the phone number but it was disconnected.  I also tried the 
800 directory service, but they don't have records of any
"Performance System," and the only "ART Marketing Group" listed was
an art dealer in Minnesota.

If you know what happened to them please let me know ASAP (email or post), 
as my warranty expires in 10 days!  Thank you for your help.


Ernesto Su
ernesto@crhc.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Need help on .ZIP file
From: hippo@sonoma.edu (Michel Davidoff)
Date: 2 Sep 92 12:31:49 PDT
Organization: Sonoma state university

In article <1992Sep2.181435.16657@menudo.uh.edu> cive1em@jane.uh.edu (Chuang, Lu-chia) writes:
>Subject: Need help on .ZIP file
>From: cive1em@jane.uh.edu (Chuang, Lu-chia)
>Date: 2 Sep 92 18:14:00 GMT
>Hello, I need to convert a ****.ZIP file to a text file.
>How should I do? Do I need to buy a software?
>Or can I get shareware from some FTP sites?
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>-LUkE 
There is a public domain program called PKunzip which will unzip this text 
file. I am pretty sure you can find at at most ftp sites.

Michel
From: Microsoft Hating Dog
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: why does everybody hate microsoft?
Date: 28 Aug 92 21:34:44 GMT
Article-I.D.: u.1992Aug28.213444.12751
Organization: U of Washington

MS Word is infinitely better on the MAC than in DOS in terms of appearance
and useability, functionally the same.  I was really glad to see that Bill
Gates got his head (almost) out of his ass and decided to put up Word for
win 2.0.  He just seems to have this nasty habit of putting up a piece of 
scheista-like software and then a couple of months later offering "low-cost"
upgrades to the program that should have been released in the first place. 

<<<<Bill Gates is the Anti Christ and he's a geek too(a rich one though)>>>
<<<<Word Perfect is a large piece of crap and a piss poor Word Processor>>


> Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Word written originally for DOS, then
> ported to the Mac -- in which case is the Wonders (ahem... Windows) version
> really a port from DOS??  And from what I have heard from people fluent
> in both Word and WordPerfect, WP is the better of the two (I wouldn't know
> firsthand, so don't flame me!  Please!!)
> 
> 
> -- 
> John Martin                                        johnm@cajal.uoregon.edu
> Institute of Neuroscience,   University of Oregon,    Eugene, OR,    97402
 
Newsgroups: uiuc.emacs,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: adam@symcom.math.uiuc.edu (Adam H. Lewenberg)
Subject: Using emacs under NCSA telnet
Organization: Math Dept., University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign
Distribution: il
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 20:54:03 GMT

I am trying to use emacs under NCSA telnet, but I can no longer make
marks, either with Ctrl-SPACE or CTRL-@. Any suggestions?
                   Thanks, Adam H. Lewenberg
-- 
University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, Dept. Of Mathematics
INTERNET: adam@math.uiuc.edu   or    a-lewenberg@uiuc.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: boisvertda@woods.ulowell.edu
Subject: Need Help With Drive
Organization: University of Lowell
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 15:28:40 GMT

Hi,
   I have had my computer for 3 years.  Today, for some reason, when I
tried to access my 3.5" 1.44 Meg drive, it gives me a General Failure Reading
Drive message.  Now, I have not installed any new hardware or software
since yesterday when it was working fine.  Is there anything I can try
before bringing it in somewhere to get fixed?

   I would appreciate ANY help.

Thanks,
Dana Boisvert
"dboisver@cs.ulowell.edu"
or
"boisvertda@woods.ulowell.edu"

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From: rb398@rbhp58.rbg.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Klaus Mueller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Imagewriter II driver needed.
Keywords: driver, apple, imagewriter
Date: 28 Aug 92 10:31:23 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Organization: TH Darmstadt

Hi,

does anybody know where to get a printer driver for the imagewriter II form 
apple. Especialy a windows-driver is needed, but drivers for all other programms 
would be welcome.

If you have any informations concerning those printer drivers for the 
imagewriter II, please mail me.

Thanks in advance

	Klaus M"uller

-- 
Klaus M"uller (rb398@rbhp56.rbg.informatik.th-darmstadt.de
               cmpbau1@isa.informatik.th-darmstadt.de)
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From: bc338569@LANCE.ColoState.Edu (Brian Catlin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Where can I find Oracle RMS software?
Date: 1 Sep 92 00:42:59 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Colorado State U. Engineering College

I would like to find a place (mail order or in Colorado) that sells a program
called Oracle RMS (RMS standing for Records Management System).

We are planning on using it to produce face sheets (arrest, incident, and crime
reports) at a police station.

I would also appreciate any opinions anyone may have about other programs of
this type.  I have looked at every software place that I can think of and none
of them had it.

Other things that we would like info on are: a cheap computer network (must be
able to network about 10 computers).  Our cheapest offer so far is $250/comp.

This info is needed ASAP as a report is going to be given on Sept. 4.  Any
help would be GREATLY appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

B. J. Catlin
bc338569@longs.LANCE.ColoState.Edu
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From: kjb@cgl.citri.edu.au (Kendall Bennett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.os.msdos.apps,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Why do people want PD software?
Date: 26 Aug 92 01:51:53 GMT
Organization: RMIT Advanced Computer Graphics Centre, CITRI, Melbourne

peter@global.hacktic.nl (Peter Busser) writes:

>While we're at nit-picking:
>>Intellectual property is not limited by hardware platform.

>Then why can't IBM sue every clone maker? The PC and AT architectures and BIOS
>are intellectual property of IBM because they were invented and published by
>IBM.

This is not true. The BIOS's that are used in all IBM clones are NOT 
intellectual property of IBM. The were reverse engineered by the Japanese,
so that the code is totally different but has the same functionality. I
can write a program that does exactly the same thing as another from
scratch, and I am not violating anyones copyright - if I use anotherse source
and call it my own, then I am violating another's copyright as I am using
their intellectual property without their consent.

>Intellectual property is not protected by copyright. Copyright restricts the
>right to copy the physical apearance (that is, the words, sentences, pictures,
>etc.) not the ideas. The only way to protect intellectual property is to keep
>it strictly for yourself, making it a trade secret or pattenting it.

You can copyright anything that is written down - lyrics, computer program
code whatever. As soon as it is written by you, it is your intellectual
property and is automatically covered by copyright law (at least this is
how it works down under :-).

+------------------------------------------+-------------------------------+
| Kendall Bennett,                         | Internet:                     |
| Advanced Computer Graphics Centre,       | kjb@citri.edu.au              |
| Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, | rcskb@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au    |
| Victoria, AUSTRALIA.                     |                               | 
+------------------------------------------+-------------------------------+
| CoSysop (Bossman), PC Connection Australia:               +61 3 688 0909 |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------+
From: franks@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com (Frank Slootweg CRC)
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 15:25:33 GMT
Subject: Re: WC2 and DR DOS 6: ARGH!
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, The Netherlands
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc

frotz@dri.com (Frotz) writes:

> 3) All tips are now available for Anonymous FTP via sjf-lwp.novell.com
> (130.57.11.140) in /sys/ftpguest/drdos/tips.  The update is in
> /sys/ftpguest/drdos/drdos/dr6win.zip

  Sorry to bother you again (No, I have not yet called 1-800-NETWARE
(1-800-638-9273) to ask for the DRDOS 6.0 upgrade (from my OEM version
from Abc computers (c))). You know: Wrong time zone. Expensive overseas
phone calls. Silly Dutch credit cards? Etc.).

  You say "The update ...". Is this a cumulative update including the
"6.01" and "6.02" (Dec'91 and Apr'92?) updates, or just the stuff needed
to run MS Windows 3.1?

Frank Slootweg
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: cwatters@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Coyt D Watters)
Subject: Which is faster Qbasic or GWBasic
Organization: The Ohio State University
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 14:42:23 GMT

That's pretty much the question.  Is QBASIC (supplied with DOS 5.x) faster
than the equivalent GWBASIC program?

Before some joker jumps in a tells me I should use a "real language" like
C or Pascal:

I am porting a large collection of programs written for the Commodore 64
(the best low budget computer ever invented) in BASIC to the PC.  I have
time to do some minor conversion, but not complete rewrite.

Since I have both BASICS, I want to use the faster one - I don't need all
the QBASIC bells and whistles (like mouse support and the new editor).

Email or Postings gladly accepted.
-Coyt
From: peter@global.hacktic.nl (Peter Busser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re^2: THE MOST TASTELESS OS (MSDOS)
Keywords: Unknown
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 92 23:57:33 GMT
Organization: Global Village 1

Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writes:

>In article <1992Aug21.231603.3615@darwin.ntu.edu.au> nunn@nutmeg.cs.ntu.edu.au (JsNO  BAR---NUNN) writes:
>> 
>> CONCLUSION:
>> 
>>   Microsoft!!....invent UNIX and make it free. The UNIX system is perfect,
>> nothing bets UNIX. UNIX rules the world and UNIX was implemented properly!.
>> If you can't do that, give us the source code for messy. At least that way,
>> 32 bits hackers can built it 32 bits.

>IBM has already done it. It's called OS/2 2.0. *NIX are good, but OS/2 gives
>much of the same power and functionality in user-friendly form that is -
>comparatively and in real terms - easy to use.

Yeah, but it's not an open system. What if IBM in it's eternal wisdom decides
that OS/2 v3.0 should only run on MCA machines? (The same goes for Windows/NT).
OS/2 applications run on nothing else but OS/2 and that means that once you
have invested in OS/2 software, you're stuck with OS/2.

Greetings,
Peter Busser
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From: acct069@carroll1.cc.edu (Ron)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,alt.binaries.pictures.d,alt.binaries.pictures.utilities
Subject: IBM JPeg viewer needed
Date: 26 Aug 92 18:30:03 GMT
Article-I.D.: carroll1.3290
Reply-To: acct069@carroll1.cc.edu (Ron)
Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Organization: Lightning Systems, Inc.

I'm looking for a JPEG (and GIF,TIFF, but mainly JPEG) viewer that will
take advantage of the 15 bit (32k) color mode (640x480) of an ATI VGA
Wonder XL card on my IBM Compat.

If you know any any Freeware/Shareware/Commercial programs that will do the
above, please drop me a line in e-mail.

I'm posting this for a friend and don't normally read this group, (I wish I
had the time to), so please send replies via e-mail.

Thanks,
-- 
Ron                      | Lightning Systems, INC. | Apple // Forever!
acct069@carroll1.cc.edu  | (414) 363-4282  62megs  | Van Halen Rules! 
carroll1!acct069@uwm.edu | 14.4k HST/V.32bis       | Bill & Ted are cool!
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From: exuptr@exu.ericsson.se (exuptr@exu.ericsson.se)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Basica
Summary: It doesn't work!
Date: 26 Aug 92 19:40:35 GMT
Organization: Ericsson Network Systems, Inc.

In article <BtJG5L.w3@brunel.ac.uk> Alan.Holmes@brunel.ac.uk (Alan J Holmes) writes:
>From: Alan.Holmes@brunel.ac.uk (Alan J Holmes)
>Subject: Basica
>Summary: It doesn't work!
>Date: 25 Aug 92 12:03:20 GMT

>I have an IBM clone with a hard disc. I just mention this in case its important.

>I have tried, after booting from the hard disc, to run basica from disc,
>the only responce I get is:-

>divide overflow

>I have asked a few people how to get it started but have come up against
>a blank wall, most people have got the same result I have and have given up.

>What am I doing wrong? 

You cannot run BASICA on clones.  Run GWBASIC instead.

 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
    "This must be Thursday.  I never could get the hang of Thursdays"
                                                       - D Adams
  - Patrick Taylor
    Ericsson Network Systems
    exuptr@exu.ericsson.se                       "Don't let the .se fool you"
    alternately, exuptr@ZGNews.Lonestar.Org
From: ROYBAL@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: why does everybody hate microsoft?
Date: 28 Aug 92 00:34:53 GMT
 <1992Aug27.114422.19944@actrix.gen.nz> <92240.124636REE700A@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>
 <1992Aug27.221152.2372@nntp.uoregon.edu>
Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

In article <1992Aug27.221152.2372@nntp.uoregon.edu>, johnm@cajal.uoregon.edu
(John Martin) says:

>in both Word and WordPerfect, WP is the better of the two (I wouldn't know
>firsthand, so don't flame me!  Please!!)

Hmm... My wife uses WordPerfect, and prefers it to / was unimpressed by
MicroLimp Werd 4 Windoze. I use the MS product, 'cause it's free; my group
leader bought it, along with Excel and Windows, under the assumption that
"they were all written by the same company, so they should all work fine
together, right?" -- but that's another tale of sorrow and shame...

An interesting point-- MS Word's easter egg shows an animation of a bunch
of tiny men beating down a huge "WP" monster. When WP for Windows was first
released, my wife had no end of grief getting it to work properly. She said
that WP's tech support was great, though the person helping her kept
cursing Microsoft under his breath...

    ...has anyone here tried loading the "best of windows shareware" file
(a windows Write document) into Word 2.0? It chokes on me. Gee.... you'd
think MicroFlaccid could write a working filter for one of their own.....

                                /x
From: gcl0@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (# Texas Stalker #)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Popular IBM FTP sites
Date: 27 Aug 92 19:43:09 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

Hi.

I'm pretty new to the PC world, can somebody give me names to some of the
more popular or often updated anonymous ftp sites for PC's?

Thanx.

GL
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: dmacneil@kean.ucs.mun.ca
Subject: PC-NFS and AccPac
Organization: Memorial University. St.John's Nfld, Canada
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 13:12:09 GMT

I'm having problems getting an accounting program called
AccPac (Computer Associates Ltd.) to run properly with
PC-NFS 4.0a and a SunSparc2 server.

Is anybody else using this program with PC-NFS 4.0a?

My specific problem seems to be with file locking and
sharing. AccPac does not support PC-NFS directly so
I'm caught in a bit af a void.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Specifically with
directory protections on the SunSparc and the DOS setup on
the PC end.

Thanks.

-----------------------------------------------------------
David MacNeil
St.John's, Newfoundland, Canada
dmacneil@kean.ucs.mun.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: grichard@swimming.cis.ohio-state.edu (Golden Richard III)
Subject: Toshiba BBS/ftp site
Organization: The Ohio State University, Department of Computer and Information Science
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 15:21:57 GMT


Does Toshiba maintain a BBS or ftp site?   Anyone have specific information?


Email, please.


-- 
Golden Richard III             OSU Dept. of Computer and Information Science
grichard@cis.ohio-state.edu                                   (614) 292-0056
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From: 11dmcvay@gallua.gallaudet.edu (Daniel T. McVay)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.os.msdos.apps,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: What is the best anti-virus program???
Date: 26 Aug 92 19:23:21 GMT
Organization: Gallaudet University

In article <1992Aug26.142519.6625@donau.et.tudelft.nl>, andreas@dutedib.et.tudelft.nl (A.A.Buykx) writes:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I recently downloaded f-prot.exe and I downloaded earlier virscan. Now my
> question is (I am a novice in *anti* virus programs):
>    Which one of these, or which other program should I use to 
>    protect my beloved computer from being crunched by some virus.
> 
> Thanks for your help, Andreas
[.sig file deleted]

Simply get any McAfee virus utilities and you're safe. 

Daniel Mcvay	11dmcvay@gallua.gallaudet.edu	11dmcvay@gallux.gallaudet.edu
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From: peter@global.hacktic.nl (Peter Busser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.os.msdos.apps,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re^2: Why do people want PD software?
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 00:01:22 GMT
Organization: Global Village 1

rahardj@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Budi Rahardjo) writes:

>peter@global.hacktic.nl (Peter Busser) writes:

>>Why would anyone need PD and not freeware?

>With PD, I can distribute the program and source as part of my own program
>without any problems. With freeware (most of the time) I still have to get 
>the permission from the author to distribute his/her program & source code.

You didn't read, I was explicitly talking about GNU software and software with
a GNU-ish copyleft, i.e. freeware. You don't need any permission to distribute
GNU(-ish) software either in source or binary form. The only requirement is
that you provide the changed sources to anyone who wants them at a nominal
cost.

Greetings,
Peter Busser
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