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Re: TP/BP7 CRT bug - no source code available - a possible fix

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From: Osmo Ronkanen
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 00:00
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In article <910725077.1774.0.nnrp-08.c1edb029@news.demon.co.uk>,
Steve Storey <Steve.Storey@KissTechnologies.Co.UK> wrote:
>
>Pedt Scragg wrote in message <2RfxPAA3kDS2Yw$s@pedt.demon.co.uk>...
>>There have been a number of requests for solving the RTE 200 bug in the
>>CRT unit when source is not available.
>>
>
>Surely this is not a problem as the compiled units are available for
>download
>from many places e.g.
>
>http://home.t-online.de/adreas.killer/crt.zip

Distributing copyrighted software is not legal. The fact that one can
distribute the code as part of compiled programs does not mean that one
can distribute the units separately.

Also one cannot access that page.

>
>and as everyone has TPUMover, they can simply remove the old units from
>TURBO.TPL and TPP.TPL and replace them with the new ones.
>
>

Also the issue was when the source of the program is not available. No
unit can help in that case.

Osmo
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From: ronkanen@cc.helsinki.fi (Osmo Ronkanen)
Subject: Re: TP/BP7 CRT bug - no source code available - a possible fix
Date: 1998/11/11
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