Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!ut-sally!husc6!bloom-beacon!gatech!mcnc!ecsvax!kotlas From: kotlas@ecsvax.UUCP (Carolyn Kotlas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc Subject: Re: The Ultra Utilities Message-ID: <3551@ecsvax.UUCP> Date: Wed, 15-Jul-87 12:36:18 EDT Article-I.D.: ecsvax.3551 Posted: Wed Jul 15 12:36:18 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 17-Jul-87 06:15:05 EDT References: <8292@brl-adm.ARPA> Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service Lines: 19 In article <8292@brl-adm.ARPA>, SAC.55SRW-LGS@E.ISI.EDU writes: > > There's a rumor that the author of the Ultra utilities > passed away, and that the company he worked for has no one to > support this program. The rumor thus declares the Ultra > Utilities as freeware. Can anyone authoritatively confirm or > deny this? This info. for users of ULTRA UTILITIES was printed in the April '87 newsletter of THE PUBLIC (software) LIBRARY: "We were recently informed by Ron White of San Antonio that the author of "Ultra Utilities" died some time ago. Reportedly, he did not leave usable source code, so his business associates are no longer able to support the program." -- Carolyn Kotlas (kotlas@ecsvax) UNC-Educational Computing Service P. O. Box 12035 2 Davis Drive Research Triangle Park, NC 27709 State Courier #315 919/549-0671