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From: ron@ron1.UUCP (Ron Saad)
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Subject: Re: Locating a copy of "The Lions Document"
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Date: Thu, 9-Jan-86 00:15:17 EST
Article-I.D.: ron1.128
Posted: Thu Jan  9 00:15:17 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 10-Jan-86 06:53:40 EST
References: <182@ecrcvax.UUCP> <7953@amdcad.UUCP>
Reply-To: ron@ron1.UUCP (Ron Saad)
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Summary: 

In article <7953@amdcad.UUCP> phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai) writes:
>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.
>
> Phil Ngai +1 408 749 5720
> UUCP: {ucbvax,decwrl,ihnp4,allegra}!amdcad!phil
> ARPA: amdcad!phil@decwrl.dec.com

According to (800) 828-UNIX, they are no longer distributing the
documents.  The person I spoke to said that they 'had kept a copy for
archival purposes' and totally eliminated distribution as of about 6
months ago.  The person said this was due to the document being
'outdated' (since it deals with version 6 code).

Oh well.
Ron.
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