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From: ken@racerx.UUCP (Ken Hardy)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: public domain ksh sources - where ?
Summary: ATT *not* free
Message-ID: <562@racerx.UUCP>
Date: 10 Apr 91 22:05:39 GMT
References: <1991Apr9.004636.18785@a-k.boston.ma.us> <2797@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au>
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In article <2797@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au>, john@chook.ua.oz (John Warburton) writes:
> In reading the Korn Shell book by David Korn, page 4 gives you a bunch of
> phone numbers aroiund the world where you can get source code to ksh from
> AT&T via the "AT&T UNIX System Toolchest software distributiuon system".
> 
> So, from this I would assume that it is in the public domain...
> So, is it possible to get it straight from AT&T on the Internet??

There is a per-item charge, and, I think, an initial registration fee.
I no longer have the logs of the dial-in session I did some time back
to the AT&T toolchest, or I'd post the charges.

You can dial in and browse free of charge, but the charges once you want
something are not insignificant -- several hundred for something as
usefull as ksh, I recall.

For those not in the know, the AT&T Toolchest is a bulletin-board system
wherein AT&T has gathered some of the things developed internally and
found useful, and offered them for sale.  I have a list I saved when I
dialed in, but it is in hardcopy format, and I don't feel like typing it
in.


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Ken Hardy		uunet!racerx!ken		ken@racerx.UUCP