mdv@comtst.UUCP (Mike Verstegen) (10/18/90)
Is the -ms macro package part of DWB or it is freely distributable? Our troff vendor did not provide either the -me or the -ms macro package. I recall something about a Berkly version that might be available. Can anybody shed any light on this? A lot of the source we get off the net have guides and other documentation that uses -ms and I'd like to get it printed. Thanks Mike -- Mike Verstegen Domain Systems, Inc Voice +1 407 686-7911 ..!uunet!comtst!mdv 5840 Corporate Way #100 Fax +1 407 478-2542 mdv@domain.com West Palm Beach, FL 33407 -- Mike Verstegen Domain Systems, Inc Voice +1 407 686-7911 ..!uunet!comtst!mdv 5840 Corporate Way #100 Fax +1 407 478-2542 mdv@domain.com West Palm Beach, FL 33407
npn@cbnewsl.att.com (nils-peter.nelson) (10/19/90)
This has been posted before, but... The -ms, -mm, -mview, -mv and other macro packages distributed with DWB 2.0, DWB 3.1 and by various VARs (Elan, SoftQuad, ImageNetwork) and in V10 Unix are all AT&T Proprietary source code. Just because you can read the files doesn't mean you're allowed to copy them and send them to someone else. That would be a violation of copyright law and of the license agreement. I believe -me is Sun Microsystems proprietary. It is legal to implement your own package based on the published documentation, but anything found on the net that appears to be our code will be reported to our legal department.
henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) (10/19/90)
In article <318@comtst.UUCP> mdv@comtst.UUCP (Mike Verstegen) writes: >Is the -ms macro package part of DWB or it is freely distributable? It's licensed software. Not sure whether it's part of DWB in particular, since AT&T has been trying to pretend that -ms doesn't exist for a long time (-mm is the only real macro package, is the theory). Partial emulations of -ms exist in the C News documentation directory and in the awf text formatter (see recent comp.sources.unix). -- The type syntax for C is essentially | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology unparsable. --Rob Pike | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) (10/31/90)
>I believe -me is Sun Microsystems proprietary.
You believe incorrectly. It was cooked up at Berkeley, comes with
4.xBSD (that's where SunOS picked it up), and in the 4.3-tahoe version
has the Berkeley "AT&T-free" copyright notice.stolcke@ICSI.Berkeley.EDU (Andreas Stolcke) (10/31/90)
In article <4209@auspex.auspex.com>, guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes: |> >I believe -me is Sun Microsystems proprietary. |> |> You believe incorrectly. It was cooked up at Berkeley, comes with |> 4.xBSD (that's where SunOS picked it up), and in the 4.3-tahoe version |> has the Berkeley "AT&T-free" copyright notice. -me macros are by Eric Allman (eric@berkeley.edu), well-know UNIX guru in these parts. -me (along with a recreation of -man, BTW) is also part of the GNU suit of troff-related software called groff (available from prep.ai.mit.edu). -- Andreas Stolcke International Computer Science Institute stolcke@icsi.Berkeley.EDU 1957 Center St., Suite 600, Berkeley, CA 94704 (415) 642-4274 ext. 126