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From: ben@rex.uokhsc.edu (Benjamin Z. Goldsteen)
Subject: Re: How was BSD written?
Message-ID: <CL6vLz.F17@rex.uokhsc.edu>
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 1994 00:49:10 GMT
Reply-To: benjamin-goldsteen@uokhsc.edu
References: <CKxEpn.1Lq@candle.uucp> <1994Feb9.055849.9351@nuchat.sccsi.com> <CL1C9p.LyA@rahul.net> <CL4zyu.su@fasttech.com>
Organization: Health Sciences Center, University of Oklahoma
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zeke@fasttech.com (Bohdan Tashchuk) writes:
>In <CL1C9p.LyA@rahul.net> dhesi@rahul.net (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
>>Maybe they used the following script?
>> #! /bin/sh
>> # BSD to SVR4 translator -- alpha version, may still have bugs
>> grep -i -v 'copyright'
>Nah. This couldn't be the actual AT&T script. They add all their own
>copyright boilerplate to every file translated. :-)
>(Revisions to script left as an exercise for the reader.)
I dunno...I would like to make this clear to the readers out there:
DG-svr4>#!/bin/sh
DG-svr4>#
DG-svr4># Copyright (C) Data General Corporation, 1984 - 1988
DG-svr4># All Rights Reserved.
DG-svr4># Licensed Material-Property of Data General Corporation.
DG-svr4>#
DG-svr4># This software is made available solely pursuant
DG-svr4># to the terms of a DGC license
DG-svr4># agreement which governs its use.
DG-svr4>#
DG-svr4># "<@(#) true.sh,v 5.1.1.1>"
DG-svr4>#
DG-svr4># <PassStamp:_@(#)DG/UX_5.4.2__e2.0:5.7>
DG-svr4>#
DG-svr4># Copyright (c) 1984 AT&T
DG-svr4># All Rights Reserved
DG-svr4>
DG-svr4># THIS IS UNPUBLISHED PROPRIETARY SOURCE CODE OF AT&T
DG-svr4># The copyright notice above does not evidence any
DG-svr4># actual or intended publication of such source code.
DG-svr4>
DG-svr4>#ident "@(#)true:true.sh 1.4"
DG-svr4>#
DG-svr4>
DG-svr4>exit 0
I was under the impression that one can only copyright three or more
words. In this case, I would say they are copyrighting "exit 0", which
appears to be 2 words to me...
P.S.They have similar scripts for i386, m88k, m68k, etc.
--
Benjamin Z. Goldsteen