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From: scjones@sdrc.UUCP (Larry Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: ZOO
Message-ID: <744@sdrc.UUCP>
Date: 14 Jun 89 00:52:43 GMT
References: <999@cbnewsh.ATT.COM> <120800003@silver> <7525@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> <2571@cveg.uucp>
Organization: Structural Dynamics Research Corp., Cincinnati
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In article <2571@cveg.uucp>, jms@hcx.uucp (Michael Stanley) writes:
> Ah come on.  Lets not nitpick!  It doesn't matter EXACTLY what the courts
> decide, the MEANING behind the man's original statement was that WE can't
> write programs which can access ARC format archives without SEA's permission.

Not true -- SEA has explicitly stated that anyone at all, except
for PKWARE, can use the ARC file format.
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