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From: ali@polya.Stanford.EDU (Ali T. Ozer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Backups, ps4014, TeX, and a DSP...
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Date: 12 Jun 89 19:32:16 GMT
References: <3775@tank.uchicago.edu>
Sender: Ali T. Ozer <ali@polya.Stanford.EDU>
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In article <3775@tank.uchicago.edu> phd_ivo@gsbacd.uchicago.edu writes:
>                              ... I decided  to  just copy all files  using
>browser windows  from the workspace.   My copying included  such funny
>files as those in /private and /dev. What bad could happen?

One bad thing that could happen is moving the files
instead of copying them. If you miss the COMMAND key when you drag, the files
will be moved. Any chance of something like that happening?

>I also   tried the  phone number given    for TeX  problems   in   the
>documentation, but it was false.  

The number mentioned in the release notes (the number for Radical Eye
Software BBS) is a valid and active phone number. Is that the number
you tried?

>Incidentally, does  the gnu cc license   allow  me to  write  and sell
>commercial   software developed    with it?   (Compiled  programs will
>obviously include copy-lefted library routines.)

I think developers will be able to write and sell commercial software
for the NeXT machine without having to give their  sources away --- otherwise
most developers would not be too crazy about developing software for the NeXT
machine. The libraries that come on the machine are all developed by NeXT;
thus your compiled application does not contain any GNU code.

> ... please give non-sound oriented users  some use for the DSP.

1.0 will come with an Array Processing library that provides functions
to do some number crunching on the DSP. 

Ali Ozer, NeXT Developer Support
aozer@NeXT.com