Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!mcnc!rti!tijc02!rdo031 From: rdo031@tijc02.UUCP (Rick Odle ) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: SEA's trademark on ARC allegedly invalid Message-ID: <258@tijc02.UUCP> Date: 13 Sep 88 12:20:22 GMT References: Organization: Texas Instr., Johnson City TN Lines: 39 > Exhibit #3 - Proof of common usage by publication: > > SIG/M, the (ACNJ) CP/M user group which distributes world-wide, released > disk #112 with ARC files on it. Although not the archive program itself, > this does establish a date of world-wide distribution of ARC files. > ---------- > > [-CATALOG.112 - The catalog of the diskette] > > > Sig/M volume 112 SIGNON/RBBS programs > - Toronto RCP/M System > > -CATALOG.111 contents of Sig/M volume 111 > released March 15, 1983 > > > index name size crc description > > 112.01 RBBENT27.BQS 15K BA 04 > 112.02 RBBEXIT1.BQS 4K 50 7B > 112.03 RBBMIN27.BQS 19K 8B FB > 112.04 RBBMIN27.DQC 10K 4A E9 ........ I started using Computer Innovations c86 c compiler sometime around this time frame, maybe a little sooner. CI has always distributed with their compiler the runtime source, in files with a .arc extension. Not compressed, but still with the so called copyrighted extension. rick -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- rick odle (615) 461-2371 texas instruments industrial systems division - / johnson city, tn 37601 ,--- / ,--- /__/ uucp: mcnc!rti!tijc02!rdo031 / /_ /___ / \ faster uucp: mcnc!convex!smu!ti-csl!tijc02!rdo031 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-