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From: mikew@wheeler.wrcr.unr.edu (Mike Whitbeck)
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Subject: Re: amssmc40.300pk NEED
Keywords: need amssmc40.300pk pictex
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Date: 18 Sep 89 22:02:12 GMT
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In article <1158@accuvax.nwu.edu> phil@delta.eecs.nwu.edu (William LeFebvre) writes:
|In article <2974@tahoe.unr.edu> mikew@wheeler.UUCP (Mike Whitbeck) writes:
|>HELP! I need amssmc40.300pk to print out pictex.dvi !
|
|The contents of pictex.dvi are copyrighted and you almost certainly do
|not have the rights to reproduce that document.  I would strongly

cool down Bill!
The pictex.dvi came in an archived TeX distribution with a
README  stating that the instructions were distributed only as
the dvi file. This implied to me that the dvi file was supposed
to be there-- I have received other PD programs with the manuals
sent in this fashion as it allows printing/viewing a manual but
without the source file it can not be 
edited/altered/easily-plagarized. BTW perhaps it is intended
that the manual is meant to be viewed as opposed to printed-
nothing was said of this in the README file but the courts have
been very indecisive regarding copyrighted computer material
that exists/used in a manner that leaves no physical evidence
(one federal court said that copyrighted computer material is
NOT protected until and only when in the form of tangible
material such as a printout).

As far as copyrights go quite a bit of the PD
software is copyrighted but still distributed for free use (TeX
even!).

|recommend that you remove all copies of pictex.dvi that you have.  The

I have received one other piece of mail suggesting this- all
other mail told me how to make the missing font!

IF THE AUTHOR CAN READ THIS I SUGGEST THAT HE CLARIFY WHETHER OR
NOT HE WANTS THIS DVI FILE OUT LOOSE IN THE WORLD.

In the meanwhile, lacking the appropriate missing font, I do
intend to order the manual from TUG or to delete both pictex.tex
and pictex.dvi from my directory- I'm no pirate.

|real printed copy of the PicTeX manual is available from the TeX Users
                                   $35 (see I did send off for
				   the prices- even before
				   posting my question! But
				   don't ya gotta admit that
				   given a dvi file as
				   instructions in a
				   distribution tar that ya JUST
				   gotta see whats in the file?)
|Group as part of their "TeXniques" series: Number 6, "The PicTeX
|Manual".  TUG's address is:
|
|	TeX Users Group
|	P.O. Box 9506
|	Providence RI, 02940 (USA)
|
|
|
|		William LeFebvre
|		Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
|		Northwestern University
|		<phil@eecs.nwu.edu>