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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: PIC
Message-ID: <10888@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 31 Aug 89 01:10:48 GMT
References: <20743@adm.BRL.MIL>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <20743@adm.BRL.MIL> baynes@nusc.navy.mil (BAYNES) writes:
>	We are looking for a public domain version 
>	of PIC. Does anyone know of an available
>	source?

The original "pic" is licensed as part of AT&T's Documenter's WorkBench.
(Release 2.0 is the most recent, I believe, and includes the version of
"pic" that was augmented to support "grap".)

I've worked extensively with the original "pic" source code, and I find
it doubtful that anyone would have done the work necessary to produce an
accurate clone.  It's a fairly large and elaborate program.

I suspect that SoftQuad (Toronto) has an improved version of "pic", but
not for free.  On the other hand, AT&T DWB licenses are fairly cheap.
Why not just get the real thing?  (Then you can get bug fixes from me.)