[rescue] Hark, something from the depths of the storage closet!

Curtis H. Wilbar Jr. rescue at hawkmountain.net
Sun May 18 12:48:13 CDT 2003


The copyright has been through '5' revisions (5 dates)... so maybe
that is 5 of them.... maybe the other one was a bug :-)

-- Curt

>Date: Sun, 18 May 2003 10:40:36 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Lionel Peterson <lionel4287 at yahoo.com>
>Subject: RE: [rescue] Hark, something from the depths of the storage closet!
>To: The Rescue List <rescue at sunhelp.org>
>
>--- "Jonathan C. Patschke" <jp at celestrion.net> wrote:
>> On Sun, 18 May 2003, Lionel Peterson wrote:
>> 
>> > Personally, I find it humorous that 'true' has a built-in help
>> > system...
>> 
>> Are you talking about GNU true?  I'm just surprised that it can't
>> check or send electronic mail.
>
>>From Solaris 9 (don't worry, I removed all the proprietary source code,
>I am sure this disclaimer would be considered "fair use"):
>
>#!/usr/bin/sh
>#       Copyright (c) 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989 AT&T
>#         All Rights Reserved
>
>#       THIS IS UNPUBLISHED PROPRIETARY SOURCE CODE OF AT&T
>#       The copyright notice above does not evidence any
>#       actual or intended publication of such source code.
>
>#ident  "@(#)true.sh    1.6     93/01/11 SMI"   /* SVr4.0 1.4   */
>
>One question - do I read this right, has this gone through *six*
>revisions (the 1.6 in the ident line)? Also, this code has been bug
>free for over 10 years!
>
>Yeah!
>
>
>=====
>Lionel
>
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>programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software"
>Bill Gates, in "An OpenLetter to Hobbyists" dated February 3, 1976
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