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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Elvis
Message-ID: <2278@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 13 Nov 90 03:19:08 GMT
References: <29500@boulder.Colorado.EDU> <3763@vela.acs.oakland.edu>
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
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In article <3763@vela.acs.oakland.edu> w8sdz@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Keith Petersen) writes:

| This is exactly why you won't see this version of Elvis archived at
| SIMTEL20.  We do not accept programs which have no documentation and
| information on who the author is so we can contact the author in case
| of problems or questions.
| 
| Many programs being distributed without documentation turn out to be
| copyrighted and/or not freely distributable.  

  I *believe* the source to elvis was posted some time ago, and I noted
that the documentation is unix docs. They are copyright, so I can't post
them. I honestly can't imagine anyone useig a vi clone unless they had
learned it while young and impressionable. That was a *joke*, send no
hate mail.
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