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- The C User's Group
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- The C Users' Group (CUG) facilitates the exchange of code and
- information among C programmers. Among other services, the group maintains
- this library of over 360 volumes of public domain C and C++ source code.
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- The C Users Journal (CUJ)
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- The C Users Journal is the successor to the C Users' Group Newsletter and
- The C Journal. Subscribers are automatically enrolled as members of The
- C Users'Group. The C Users Journal and The C Users' Group are services
- of R&D Publications, Inc., Lawrence, Ks.
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- CUJ Subscription Information
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- Annual subscriptions to CUJ (12 issues) are: $29.95 US, $54 Canada and
- Mexico, and $65 overseas (airmail).
- Two-year subscriptions are: $56 US, $89 Canada/Mexico, $123 overseas.
- Three-year subscriptions are: $79 US, $122 Canada/Mexico, $175 overseas.
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- Payments must be in US dollars. Make checks payable to: The C Users Journal.
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- We will gladly accept MasterCard or Visa phone orders at
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- voice: (913) 841-1631
- FAX: (913) 841-2624
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- We do not currently accept any other credit or charge cards.
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- Writing to Us
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- Your editorial feedback is always welcome. Write to us at:
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- The C Users Journal (if including code, please put
- 1601 W. 23rd St. Suite 200 both the code and text of your letter
- Lawrence, KS. 66046 on a floppy disk, any size or
- (913) 841-1631 density; DOS, tar or cpio format)
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- or, e-mail us at:
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- cujed@rdpub.com ("...!uunet!rdpub!cujed")
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- What Is The C Users' Group Code Like?
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- Unlike machine-centered user groups, CUG has collected C source code
- from a wide variety of environments. The code has been developed on
- machines as tiny as the Radio Shack Color Computer or as large as
- a Cray II. As a consequence the quality, dialect and portability of
- the code varies greatly. Unless you intend to use a program written
- for a PC clone on a PC clone you should expect to make at least minor
- modifications to the code.
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- For the most part, code developed on MS-DOS will port easily to UNIX
- and vice-versa. The exception would be programs that directly manipulate
- hardware devices (such as the video display) or that use large UNIX
- packages (such as curses).
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- Copyright
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- The copyright status varies among the types of volume. Each volume
- includes information identitying its copyright status. The possible types are:
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- public -- released to the public domain with no restrictions.
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- share1 -- shareware, source code included.
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- share2 -- shareware, source code not included but available from the
- author for a small registration fee.
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- restricted -- copyright reserved or use restricted, but no registration
- fee requested.
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- mixed -- copyright status varies from file to file through the volume.
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- Submission Policy
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- CUG is interested in ALL user supported C and C++ source code.
- Programs need not be new and unique, nor massive, to be useful to
- other members. Many times even minor modifications of existing library
- programs are important to other members, especially if the
- modifications improve the portability of the code.
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- CUG accepts submissions only from the author or copyright holder.
- All submissions must be accompanied by the author's release form provided
- on most CUG volumes.
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- In part the author's release is designed to protect the interests
- of members who desire to restrict for-profit distribution of their
- product. For tax purposes CUG is a service of R & D Publications,
- Inc., a for-profit Kansas corporation. We had originally intended
- to organize as a non-profit corporation but found it was an unbelievable
- hassle. We hope this release will allow authors to clearly authorize
- distribution by CUG while at the same time protecting their residual
- rights.
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- We make every effort to respect the intentions of the submitting author
- when distributing software.
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- Guidelines For Submissions
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- If you (or perhaps several authors) have placed restrictions
- on your material, include ALL the restrictions prominently on the
- outside of the disk.
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- Write the disk format on the outside of the disk!!!
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- If you submit text files (documentation):
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- DO NOT send them in some word-processor format.
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- Please DO send all text files on a disk. We can read almost all MS-DOS
- and UNIX tar/cpio formats.
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- Include a one or two paragraph summary of the disk contents on the
- disk, along with a longer (two to ten pages) article which is detailed
- enough that it will help members decide whether the submission is
- of use to them.
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- Finally, unless you are really serious about policing the users of
- your software, reconsider restricting it. We will certainly respect
- your wishes, but you should be warned that you will be very hard-pressed
- to enforce copyright privileges once a product has been distributed
- free to any class of users. Our fear is that most of the restrictions
- we are so carefully repeating are legally unenforceable and thus are
- accomplishing little except to consume group time.
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