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Article #306Re: CRT Unit source code
From: Robert AH Prins
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 00:00
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 00:00
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In article <7he1jr$3s0@kruuna.Helsinki.FI>, ronkanen@cc.helsinki.fi (Osmo Ronkanen) wrote: > In article <37394180.14242467@news.zipworld.com.au>, > Ian A. White <waiwhite@zipworld.net> wrote: > > > >This URL has corrected units for BP7. > > Distributing the units is illegal. Distributing the SOURCE of the units is illegal, distributing the units themselves is a far greyer area: For those readers new to this group, Borland made the RTL source of TP6/7 available for a fee, and gave it as a bonus with BP7. Norbert Juffa completely rewrote the TP6 RTL, and ported most of his changes to the BP7 RTL. Programs compiled with either are usually smaller and always faster than those using the Borland RTL. He also made "real" arithmetic as IEEE compliant as possible. Both are libraries are available on Garbo, TP6: ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/turbopa6/tpl60n19.zip BP7: ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/turbopa7/bpl70n16.zip BTW, there is also another one for TP6, by Jim Lemay ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/turbopa6/sys60a.zip JLM also produces a commercial (Pentium optimized) version for BP7 (SpeedPack II), look in DejaNews for references to it, I do not know the product. So, if distributing unit is illegal, why hasn't Borland done anything about the above three, or about SP II, where someone is actually making money using parts of their code? Maybe someone from Borland can give us a definite answer? Robert -- Robert AH Prins prinsra@williscorroon.com --== Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ ==-- ---Share what you know. Learn what you don't.---
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