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From: kehres@styx.UUCP
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Subject: Re: UUCP source code is protected.  End of discussion.
Message-ID: <21357@styx.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 28-Mar-87 00:44:37 EST
Article-I.D.: styx.21357
Posted: Sat Mar 28 00:44:37 1987
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References: <1019@osiris.UUCP> <15442@sun.uucp> <271@mcdchg.UUCP> <213@atelabs.UUCP>
Reply-To: kehres@styx.UUCP (Tim kehres)
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In article <213@atelabs.UUCP> cds@atelabs.UUCP (David Shanks) writes:
+ [ major portion of SV /bin/true "source" deleted - cds ]
+ >
+ >#ident	"@(#)true:true.sh	1.4"
+ 
+ Does anyone else find it amusing in the extreme that it took someone (or
+ perhaps a team) four revisions to come up with this "source"?

Not really.  Many times revisions of source code differ by items other
than just the executable portion of the code.  Copyrights, what string
formats, disclaimers, and comments are examples.

Tim Kehres
Control Data Corporation / Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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