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From: romero@mind.UUCP (Antonio Romero)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: PLANETS.COM
Message-ID: <1905@mind.UUCP>
Date: 22 Feb 88 23:23:54 GMT
References: <4435@watdcsu.waterloo.edu>
Distribution: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Organization: Cognitive Science, Princeton University
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Summary: Maybe misinterpreting things...

In article <4435@watdcsu.waterloo.edu>, tknight@watdcsu.waterloo.edu (T.Knight - Computing Services) writes:
>  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.

Any chance that the program was compiled with Turbo C, or Turbo Pascal,
which might insert some such message into all its executables?
(I don't know if Turbo products do this, but I've
seen other compilers that seemed to...)
Let's not be quite so hasty...

-Antonio Romero      romero@mind.princeton.edu