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From: sdyer@bbncca.ARPA (Steve Dyer)
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Subject: Re: want new utilities for Berkeley UNIX
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Date: Fri, 5-Oct-84 23:20:46 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct  5 23:20:46 1984
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You've got it backwards, more or less.

A System V license will allow you to run any earlier licensed material,
such as programs from Version 6, PWB, Version 7 and UNIX 32/V and
System III.  Earlier licenses (which are listed here roughly
chronologically) do not give you any rights to System V materials.

A Berkeley 4.1 or 4.2 license only specifies what you may do with the
Berkeley distribution, a prerequisite for which is a UNIX 32/V (or
later) license, since it contains proprietary UNIX sources.

If the Wang Institute has a System V source license, it would also
have the distribution tape, from which you could compile the newer
System V utilities.  There may be some source-level incompatibilities
due to the differences between 4.1 (or 4.2) and System V.  For 4.1,
I expect that the problems will not be extensive; for 4.2, Doug Gwyn
at BRL has a System V compatibility package which allows System V
programs to run under 4.2.

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/Steve Dyer
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