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- From: keith@taligent.com (Keith Rollin)
- Subject: Re: Is "Programmers Online Companion" going to be updated?
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- References: <mxmora-210892142616@css-mac1.sri.com> <1992Aug24.030458.25814@cs.brown.edu> <peter-250892141421@134.7.50.3>
- Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 19:04:36 GMT
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- In article <peter-250892141421@134.7.50.3>, peter@cujo.curtin.edu.au (Peter N
- Lewis) writes:
- >
- > Well, you could do this I guess. Except that I've already done it, as well
- > as writeing my own clone of POLC, which I've been using for six months, and
- > which I would love to release free, but I have not been able to sort out
- > the required US$100 to license the PInterfacesHelp file, on which the
- > database is created (the database is created by running an automatic parser
- > over the PInterfacesHelp file, thus ensuring rapid updates as new systems
- > come out).
- >
- > If anyone feels like donating the $100 and sorting out the licensing of the
- > file, I can get on with beta testing (it works fine for me, it does have
- > some problems that I can't avoid, but basically it works nicely, it even
- > allows multiple independent databases, so I have a theasaurus as well...).
- >
- > If you are interested, mail me, but I obviously can't mail anyone the file,
- > since its based on a copyright file that I haven't been able to license
- > yet.
-
- Could you just send out you homebrew POLC along with the converter program that
- creates the database file from PInterfaces? There shouldn't be any problem with
- that.
-
- I remember, ages ago, on the Apple II, Glen Bredon disassembled and commented
- the AppleSoft object code. He wasn't allowed to send out his results directly
- (because it included Apple copyrighted code converted to human readable form),
- but he was able to send out a little program that would _create_ a commented
- source file based on his file of comments. The program disassembled the
- AppleSoft ROMs and added his comments to each line.
-
- --
- Keith Rollin
- Phantom Programmer
- Taligent, Inc.
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