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From: phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai)
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Subject: Re: Locating a copy of "The Lions Document"
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Date: Sat, 4-Jan-86 01:08:39 EST
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In article <182@ecrcvax.UUCP> dave@ecrcvax.UUCP (David Morton) writes:
>
>I thought that Bell or AT & T or whatever they were called at that
>time "persuaded" Lyons (not Lions) to forget the idea of publishing this
>documment which contains (contained) Bell source code ?
>Thus, to my ill informed knowledge, any published copy is illegal. I may
>be wrong on this issue. The document is widely available but not officially
>published.

That's right, you're wrong. In fact, AT&T is a distributor of the
document.  As part of a Unix source license (for V7 at least) you are
allowed to request one copy. I have one. Pretty expensive book, if you
don't qualify for an educational Unix license and the book was all you
wanted. There are two volumes, a reformatted printout of the V6 source
code, and comments on that source code.
-- 
 Smokers are the lepers of the 80's.

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