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From: madd@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Jim Frost)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: PLANETS.COM
Message-ID: <20052@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Date: 20 Feb 88 22:32:24 GMT
References: <4435@watdcsu.waterloo.edu> <5045@pyr.gatech.EDU>
Reply-To: madd@bu-it.bu.edu (Jim Frost)
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In article <5045@pyr.gatech.EDU> ccoprrd@pyr.gatech.EDU (Richard Dervan) writes:
>In article <4435@watdcsu.waterloo.edu>, tknight@watdcsu.waterloo.edu (T.Knight - Computing Services) writes:
>> 
>>    A few days ago someone was asking for source to PLANETS.COM that was
>> posted recently. I just ran PLANETS through CHK4BOMB and found a
>> "Copyright 1985 Borland Inc." message in it. When you invoke PLANETS
>> it displays the message "PLANETS V3.0 is a Public Domain Program". Looks
>> like someone's doing a little piracy.
>> 
>Unless I'm very badly mistaken, Borland compilers (as well as others)
>leave a copyright message in the exacutable code.

Borland's Turbo Pascal 3.01A and earlier do this; 4.0 and Turbo C
(Prolog?) do not.

jim frost
madd@bu-it.bu.edu