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From: rickr@nscpdc.NSC.COM (Rick Riverman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: PLANETS.COM
Message-ID: <997@nscpdc.NSC.COM>
Date: 25 Feb 88 17:03:37 GMT
References: <4435@watdcsu.waterloo.edu>
Distribution: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Organization: National Semiconductor, Portland Development Center, Portland, OR
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Summary: PLANETS.COM - Pirated??


In reference to the suspicion that PLANETS.COM is pirated...

The program was written by Larry Puhl in Chicago Il.

It is written in Turbo Pascal v3.1 and therefore has the Borland copyright
message coded into the first few bytes of the .COM file.  ALL Borland
Turbo Pascal .COM files have this code.  It is part of the .COM header.

I have seen Larry's source code and can affirm that *MANY* hard hours of
work went into it's design.  PLANETS is an excellent astronomical calculation
program.

	Rick Riverman
	Aloha, OREGON