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From: rminnich@udel.EDU (Ron Minnich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: NFS on the amiga, or, how to steal software over the net
Message-ID: <323@louie.udel.EDU>
Date: Wed, 8-Jul-87 12:51:26 EDT
Article-I.D.: louie.323
Posted: Wed Jul  8 12:51:26 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 11-Jul-87 06:47:58 EDT
References: <1521@botter.cs.vu.nl> <312@louie.udel.EDU> <1274@apple.UUCP> <320@louie.udel.EDU> <4299@jade.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: rminnich@udel.EDU (Ron Minnich)
Organization: University of Delaware
Lines: 38
Keywords: NFS, multi-tasking envy, Macintosh
Summary: That's not really what i meant, or, aaaaaarrrrrgggghhhh!

In article <4299@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> mwm@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Mike (My watch has windows) Meyer) writes:
>In article <320@louie.udel.EDU> rminnich@udel.EDU (Ron Minnich) writes:
> .
> [some text deleted for brevity]
> .
>if you use NFS to load a copy of AmigaTeX onto an Amiga
>for which it isn't licensed, you've just *stolen* a copy of AmigaTeX.
>True, you're going to throw it away shortly. But theft is theft, even
>if only for a short period of time.
>
>The correct way to use NFS with one AmigaTeX license is to use NFS to
>edit your files on the Amiga, then switch windows to an rlogin to run
>the TeX on the remote machine.

   Gee, i am somehow giving people the wrong impression. 
I do not want to buy amigatex at all. I want to hop to my rlogin window,
(on the VAX of course), and type
latex RonsAmiga:somefile.tex,
where RonsAmiga will, i hope, be the host name of my amiga if 
i ever get the Ameristar card. I do not want AmigaTex; with 
Knuth's TeX (free, remember!) i do not need it; and i see no
good reason to even try to run AmigaTex when i have TeX on the 
VAX. 
   It is certainly true that if you are using AmigaTex then you
can only use it on one machine, NFS or not. At least on the 
Amiga you CAN run multiple copies of AmigaTex. 
    I am NOT advocating stealing software !
   Sorry,
ron

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