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From: agollum@engr.uky.edu (David Herron aka Admiral Gollum)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: PLANETS.COM
Message-ID: <2046@ukecc.engr.uky.edu>
Date: 20 Feb 88 19:20:37 GMT
References: <4435@watdcsu.waterloo.edu>
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In episode <4435@watdcsu.waterloo.edu>, we
heard tknight@watdcsu.waterloo.edu (T.Knight - Computing Services) say:
>... 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.
> 
>  Perhaps one of our virus experts could check it out to see if whoever
>removed the copyright message added a few undocumented features, like disk
>formats, etc. Anyway its definitely pirated software that's been altered
>so use at your own risk, both physical and moral !!.

Um, before you call out the national guard, that message appears in
any program compiled with turbo pascal 3.0.  It's part of the TP
runtime package.  Borland lets the runtime package be redistributed
freely so don't worry about it.   BTW, TP 4.0 does away with the
runtime package and (I think) you won't see any borland copyright 
messages.  In fact, if anyone knows where I can get source code,
I'd like to port it to 4.0.  I just have this hercules card, you see...

Kenneth Herron