ned@pebbles.cad.mcc.com (Ned Nowotny) (08/27/89)
Now that my disk is 68% available instead of 95% full (fixed by a disk upgrade), I am interested in tracking down a few good pieces of software: 1) What is the current word on HDB uucp for people who are not AT&T employees? 2) Since I have no desire to pay AT&T for mailx, what mailers do you use and recommend? 3) What is the latest C version of TeX? Is it CTeX or CommonTeX? How do they differ? Which do you recommend? Where can I get it and a previewer? Oh, and where can I get a DVI driver for an HP LaserJet II? 4) Is there a PD man command? Or, should I just code up a shell script to run "nroff -man" on files found by name in the usual man directories? 5) Speaking of nroff, are there copyright restrictions on getting the ms and me macro packages for my machine? To what, if anything, are the mn macros distributed with the cnews(?) sources similar? 6) Do you recommend any other essential programs? Thank you for your support. Ned Nowotny, MCC CAD Program, Box 200195, Austin, TX 78720 Ph: (512) 338-3715 ARPA: ned@mcc.com UUCP: ...!cs.utexas.edu!milano!cadillac!ned ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "We have ways to make you scream." - Intel advertisement in the June 1989 DDJ.
hoffman@pitt.UUCP (Bob Hoffman) (08/29/89)
>2) Since I have no desire to pay AT&T for mailx, what mailers do you use and > recommend? AT&T mailx is really Berkeley Mail, which is not restricted by the AT&T source license, and is therefore available for anonymous FTP from uunet.uu.net in the directory bsd-sources/src/ucb/Mail. Some common public-domain mailers are elm, mm, mh, and mush. I'm sure that each of these has been ported to the Unix-PC at one time or another. >5) Speaking of nroff, are there copyright restrictions on getting the ms and > me macro packages for my machine? To what, if anything, are the mn macros > distributed with the cnews(?) sources similar? The ms macros are part of the AT&T licensed source, but the me macros are not. You can get them with anonymous FTP from uunet.uu.net in the directories bsd-sources/lib/tmac and bsd-sources/lib/me. ---Bob. -- Bob Hoffman, N3CVL {allegra, bellcore, cadre, idis, psuvax1}!pitt!hoffman Pitt Computer Science hoffman@cs.pitt.edu
elliot@alfred.UUCP (Elliot Dierksen) (09/02/89)
> > The ms macros are part of the AT&T licensed source, but the me macros > are not. You can get them with anonymous FTP from uunet.uu.net in the > directories bsd-sources/lib/tmac and bsd-sources/lib/me. I happen to need (BADLY!) the me macros, how about somewhere that allows anon-uucp to pick these up. Even better, anybody in the Orlando FL area want to mail them to me?? -- Elliot Dierksen UUCP: {peora,ucf-cs,uunet}tarpit!alfred!elliot "You can only be you once, but you can be immature forever!"
stevea@mcdclv.UUCP (Steve Alexander) (09/08/89)
----- News saved at 7 Sep 89 20:02:31 GMT In article <5773@pitt.UUCP> hoffman@cs.pitt.edu (Bob Hoffman) writes: >>2) Since I have no desire to pay AT&T for mailx, what mailers do you use and >> recommend? > >AT&T mailx is really Berkeley Mail, which is not restricted by the AT&T >source license, ... The mailx source in Release 3 has lots and lots of AT&T copyright notices in it. It may look and feel somewhat like Berkeley mail, but I doubt that it is based on Berkeley source. I would also be very careful about copying *ANYTHING* from an AT&T distribution. -- Steve Alexander | "Down, down in the basement, I hear the sound of MCD Cleveland | machines" - D. Byrne
john@chance.UUCP (John R. MacMillan) (09/09/89)
In article <583@mcdclv.UUCP> stevea@mcdclv.UUCP (Steve Alexander) writes: | The mailx source in Release 3 has lots and lots of AT&T copyright |notices in it. It may look and feel somewhat like Berkeley mail, but I |doubt that it is based on Berkeley source. I would also be very |careful about copying *ANYTHING* from an AT&T distribution. Having looked at the source for both, mailx is almost certainly derived from Mail, but given the copyright notices, I wouldn't touch the mailx source regardless. -- John R. MacMillan "Don't you miss it...don't you miss it... john@chance.UUCP Some of you people just about missed it." ...!utcsri!hcr!chance!john -- Talking Heads
wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew) (09/11/89)
We have a source license for 5.2. A while back I needed to look at the sources for mailx. The string, "Copyright (c) 1979 Regents of the University of California", appears in the c language sources for mailx. It would appear that the only changes to mailx were to accodate the differences in signal handling and a few other minor quirks between bsd and sys V. From the user's point of view, mailx==/usr/ucb/mail. Bill