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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!lll-winken.llnl.gov!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!bostic From: bostic@toe.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Keith Bostic) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Why is ching(6) not present in 4.4BSD and its offspring? Date: 27 Oct 1994 14:46:35 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 15 Message-ID: <38oegb$mtc@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <38lt9r$ool@linda.teleport.com> <38n0uuINN7m4@rrzs3.uni-regensburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: toe.cs.berkeley.edu In article <38n0uuINN7m4@rrzs3.uni-regensburg.de>, Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@rz.uni-regensburg.de> wrote: >> Could someone tell me why ching(6) is not included in the 4.4BSD release? I >> assume it has something to do with the usual AT&T->USL->Novell issue, but what? > >What's ching()? Ching(6) is a computer game/simulation of casting against the I Ching or Book of Changes. Parts of the code were proprietary to AT&T/USL/Novell, and were never replaced with a freely redistributable implementation, and therefore could not be included on 4.4BSD-Lite. --keith