Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!hodge!jdm From: jdm@hodge.UUCP (jdm) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Humorous bug in Sprint Summary: Microsoft copyright notice is in Sprint Message-ID: <21955@hodge.UUCP> Date: 23 Sep 89 20:01:06 GMT References: <21911@hodge.UUCP> <-286529985@hpcupt1.HP.COM> Organization: Hodge Computer Research Corporation Lines: 26 In article <-286529985@hpcupt1.HP.COM>, swh@hpcupt1.HP.COM (Steve Harrold) writes: > > Have you run the Sprint code through a "strings" program (a unix filter) > to see if the Borland product has copyright notices for the Microsoft > library that must have been linked in to produce the message you reported? > > Please report your result. Would be most interesting if true. Oh yes. I've already done that. It seems 9 of the 12 .EXE files in Sprint V1.01 contain the Microsoft run-time library copyright notice. I guess the orginal editors they bought was written in MSC and there was no reason to spend the money to convert it over to Turbo C. -- "I'm an anthropologist, not a computer systems architect, damit!" jdm@hodge.cts.com [uunet zardoz crash]!hodge!jdm James D. Murray, Ethnounixologist TEL: (714) 998-7750 Ext. 129 Hodge Computer Research Corporation FAX: (714) 921-8038 1588 North Batavia Street Orange, California 92667 USA