karl@triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) (11/15/88)
It was pointed out to me a couple of weeks ago that the dictionary file which we had made available for anonymous UUCP on osu-cis (and anon ftp on tut.cis.ohio-state.edu) was likely to be illegal, due to the probability that it was, in part, a copy of AT&T's /usr/dict/words from a garden variety UNIX System V release. I have since found that what we had was in fact exactly that. How we came to have that in our archives instead of the usual ispell dictionary, I have no idea whatever. Be advised that all holders of the file dict.shar.Z as obtained from osu-cis or tut.cis.ohio-state.edu have an improper copy of /usr/dict/words, and to cover your backside, you should remove it immediately unless you are suitably licensed. We have replaced the offending dict.shar.Z with dict.191.Z, courtesy of the author, which represents no conflict with AT&T. The ispell portion of the anon UUCP instructions for osu-cis now reads: Ispell ------ Sources are from celray.cs.yale.edu as of 18 May 1988. Root is /u/public/ispell/ and contains the following: dict.191.Z 74,165 ispell.shar.Z 108,435 ispell.el 22,712 Many thanx to Geoff Keunning (desint!geoff) for noticing the conflict, advising us of it, and supplying the replacement dict.191. --Karl Kleinpaste Ohio State Computer Science