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From: harrison@necssd.NEC.COM (Mark Harrison)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: The Official Word on Citations in FSF Works
Message-ID: <398@necssd.NEC.COM>
Date: 25 Jul 90 15:20:34 GMT
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In article <3014@skye.ed.ac.uk>, jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton) writes:

> I don't think anyone has shown that
> that book[*] was plagiarized or used in any way in the preparation of
> the GAWK manual.
[*] The Awk Programming Language

But it is inconceivable that the GAWK software could have been written
without some reference to either the book or the man page that is
distributed with the Aho, Weinberger, and Kernighan version.
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