alu@erc3ba.UUCP (Alan Lustiger) (11/02/87)
In article <1028@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> rjchen@phoenix.UUCP (Raymond Juimong Chen) writes: >I have found a copy of a MS-DOS vi on a local bulletin board and am >wondering what its copyright status is. Its title screen is as >follows: > >*** VI editor *** / by Striker! / Version 3.1p / 9/29/86 / >Copyrite [sic] 1986 The StrikerCorp! Int'l > >It came with no documentation, so I am inclined to believe that >it is indeed a commercial product. Can anyone verify this? > I've seen it too, in my never ending quest for a PD version of VI. It looked a little too familiar. Striker, whoever he is, took a version of VI known as "Z" from Manx Software. He substituted his name for that of the real author. It is copyrighted and as far as I know illegal for use unless you pay Manx for it or their Aztec C compiler. I'm still breathlessly awaiting the version to be posted here... -- Alan Lustiger |_ ' | AT&T Engineering Research Center / |( Princeton, NJ {AT&T Machines}!pruxc!alu
feg@clyde.UUCP (11/04/87)
In article <1028@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>, rjchen@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Raymond Juimong Chen) writes:
$ I have found a copy of a MS-DOS vi on a local bulletin board and am
$ wondering what its copyright status is. Its title screen is as
$ follows:
$
$ *** VI editor *** / by Striker! / Version 3.1p / 9/29/86 /
$ Copyrite [sic] 1986 The StrikerCorp! Int'l
$
I tried email but we can't reach you that way...............
I have seen some hacked versions of the VI that is included with the
Manx C compiler on local BBS. If the size of the version is around
29K and when brought up indicates that it can handle 57K files, then
that is what you have. I have informed several sysops about this and
all but one removed the copy.
Forrest Gehrke