Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!rutgers!iuvax!bobmon
From: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: SEA files against pkarc author
Message-ID: <9537@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 9 Jun 88 15:03:54 GMT
References: <5763@megaron.arizona.edu> <2150@rtech.UUCP>
Reply-To: bobmon@iuvax.UUCP (RAMontante)
Organization: Computer Science Dept., Indiana University
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In article <2150@rtech.UUCP> brent@rtech.UUCP (Brent Williams) writes:
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>It was actually a copyright infringement on the source code, quite 
>a different matter from look and feel of screens.  Besides, if you've 

This seems an unlikely claim to me.  As I understand it, ARC was written in
a bastardized C; and I thought the source was put into public domain when
the various Unix /etc. ports came out.  PKARC, meanwhile, was written in
MASM.  The performance differences surely suggest that there is different
source code underneath the two!
-- 
-bob,mon
"In this position, the skier is flying in a complete stall..."