Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!nems!mimsy!mojo!mojo!djm From: djm@eng.umd.edu (David J. MacKenzie) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix Subject: Re: Looking for help with fox and sco Message-ID: Date: 9 May 90 03:06:50 GMT References: <144100012@cdp> <5392@scorn.sco.COM> Sender: news@eng.umd.edu (The News System) Distribution: na Organization: University of Maryland Lines: 20 In-Reply-To: rogerk@sco.COM's message of 8 May 90 00:55:09 GMT >>I am using SCO's foxbase software. About a year ago I started asking >>SCO if/when they would put a switch in it to allow users to turn off >>the copyright screen every time the prog. gets launched (this after > Surely you realize that you violate copyright by removing the copyright > notice? This is basic to copyright law - to get copyright protection, > you have to display a copyright message. > Display of the copyright message is required both to protect > our copyrights and those of Fox Software. I'm not an expert on computer copyright law, but I note that GNU emacs displays a copyright message on startup by default, but also has a variable, 'inhibit-startup-message', that you can set in your .emacs file to suppress the copyright message on startup. gdb has a '-quiet' option to do the same thing. As far as I know, these options do not jeopardize the copyright of those programs. What would be wrong with putting a similar feature in FoxBASE? -- David J. MacKenzie