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From: hitz@auspex.auspex.com (Dave Hitz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Copyrighting empty files (was Re: Must UNIX be a memory hog?)
Message-ID: <1708@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 27 May 89 03:25:59 GMT
References: <159@zebra.UUCP> <1608@auspex.auspex.com> <2@minya.UUCP> <20373@news.Think.COM> <8335@june.cs.washington.edu> <10321@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Reply-To: hitz@auspex.auspex.com (Dave Hitz)
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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In article <10321@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>In article <8335@june.cs.washington.edu> ka@june.cs.washington.edu (Kenneth Almquist) writes:
>>It's about time that someone pointed out that the System V "true" program
>>is not the empty file.
>It was before AT&T went around adding bogus Copyright notices to everything.

Yes, but then there wasn't a copyright notice in it.
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