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From: jeremy@enosh.prime.com (Jeremy Nussbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Tcsh? Ksh? anything?
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Date: 15 Mar 89 15:08:30 GMT
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For whatever it's worth, here is a very recent posting from comp.archives
claiming that the ksh from gpu is indeed public domain:
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Article 120 of comp.archives:
>From: emv@mailgw.cc.umich.edu (Ed Vielmetti)
Newsgroups: comp.archives
Subject: Public domain version of ksh is available
Message-ID: <8903111800.AA22239@mailgw.cc.umich.edu>
Date: 11 Mar 89 18:00:36 GMT
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Reply-To: schoenin%s.cs.uiuc.edu@a.cs.uiuc.edu (Charles Schoening)
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>From: schoenin%s.cs.uiuc.edu@a.cs.uiuc.edu (Charles Schoening)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Public domain version of ksh is available
Keywords: Software
Message-ID: <8902271718.AA27944@s.cs.uiuc.edu>
Date: 11 Mar 89 03:43:49 GMT
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Original-Date: Mon, 27 Feb 89 11:18:55 CST
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For those interested in a public domain version of ksh, there is one
available by anonymous FTP from the site `gpu.utcs.toronto.edu'.  It was
not derived from the AT&T sources.

brad schoeing
schoenin@cs.uiuc.edu
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