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From: aegl@root.co.uk (Tony Luck)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Cloning the new IBMs without violating copyrights
Message-ID: <279@root44.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 1-May-87 17:33:37 EDT
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Posted: Fri May  1 17:33:37 1987
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Reply-To: aegl@root44.UUCP (Tony Luck)
Organization: Root Computers Ltd, London, England
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Can't you just include the copyright string in some unintelligible character
set (e.g. ascii) and convert it to ebcdic when talking to the mainframe...
or use rev(1) [I've been trying to think of a use for rev] thus:

	MBI 7891 thgirypoC

or rot13 it:
	Pbclevtug 1987 VOZ

or whatever you like.