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From: jds@mimsy.umd.edu (James da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: DECUS CPP (was Re: ST: CPP limitations?)
Summary: It's legitimate
Message-ID: <25719@mimsy.umd.edu>
Date: 26 Jul 90 05:16:02 GMT
References: <25604@nigel.udel.EDU>
Reply-To: jds@cs.umd.edu (James da Silva)
Organization: University of Maryland, Department of Computer Science
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In article <25604@nigel.udel.EDU> HBO043%DJUKFA11.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu
(Christoph van Wuellen) writes:
>I have [...] decus cpp (I think a pirate version of some commercial stuff).

What makes you think that?  Perhaps you are thinking of the "DECUS YACC"
incident, where the real AT&T Yacc got onto a DECUS tape.  This was quickly
removed by DECUS, but continues to resurface occasionally on BBSes and the
net.

As far as I know, all other DECUS software (in particular their versions of
CPP and Lex) is legitimate freely distributable stuff.

Jaime
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