Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!dutrun!dutesta!karel
From: karel@dutesta.UUCP (Karel van Houten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: PLANETS.COM
Message-ID: <1085@dutesta.UUCP>
Date: 24 Feb 88 11:52:13 GMT
References: <4435@watdcsu.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: karel@dutesta.UUCP (Karel van Houten)
Distribution: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Organization: Delft University of Technology, Dep. of Electrotechnical engineering.
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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.
 
This doesn't mean it is pirated, just that it has been compiled by a
borland compiler. I myself have compiled the 'planets' program distributed
in the starchart package with the Microsoft C v4.0. and that program works
fine.

>  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 !!.

I do not claim THIS planets program IS PD, or that it is virus free,
I only object to such a fast conclusion.

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