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From: mouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: RTFM vs RTFSC (Read The Friggin' Source Code)
Message-ID: <478@mcgill-vision.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 9-Aug-86 06:22:04 EDT
Article-I.D.: mcgill-v.478
Posted: Sat Aug  9 06:22:04 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 12-Aug-86 15:10:43 EDT
References: <14935@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <1078@ttrdc.UUCP> <240@petrus.UUCP> <2402@phri.UUCP>
Followup-To: mod.computers.sun
Organization: McGill University, Montreal
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In article <2402@phri.UUCP>, roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:
> In article <5530@sun.uucp> guy@sun.UUCP writes:
> [Regarding the 4.3 *and* Sys5 getopt(3) man pages being wrong]
>> Read the code, not the manual page!
> [this is why we demand source with a system] (when we recently had to
> decide between Sun and Sequent, Sequent lost largely because they
> wouldn't release source for a reasonable price).

Does Sun?

We are a university.  We bought source from Sun.  We were given the
impression that the tapes contained full source (it was a "university
package" or some such).  Second time I look at it, it's to fix a bug in
the pixrect library.  There's no source to the pixrect library!  Turns
out there's no source to dbx, cc, or pc as well.  It seems this is
barely a skeleton system!  They want to gouge us some $K ($1K-$10K, I
forget) for 7 "packages" (pixrect, cc, etc).  Suddenly a MicroVAX with
4.[23] looks much more attractive....

What I consider slimy is that we were given the impression (I don't
know whether we were told outright) that the first tape was full
source.  I just hope we *were* told so, in writing....

By the way, the bug in the pixrect library is that depth=1 pixrects
ignore the "reverse video" flag on a pr_put()....anybody got a fix?
-- 
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