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Re: How to "save" behind window in graphics mode?

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From: Dan Odom
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 04:22
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danwood@netcom.com (Daniel J Wood) writes:

>I guess my ignorance in DOS programming is showing again. What's this patent?

Ask the LPF (ftp to prep.ai.mit.edu and get the files pub/lpf/patent-list and
mit.announcement).  Basically, AT&T thinks that it owns the technique
that you used.

>And does this mean that somebody's gonna come breathing down my neck if 
>write an application with windows?

Possibly.  I think that they're suing the X Consortium (sp) over it now...

-- 
Dan Odom
Kansas State University
danodom@matt.ksu.ksu.edu
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