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     <Snews.980712.110422.chris.10723@keris.demon.co.uk>
     chris@keris.demon.co.uk "Chris Croughton" wrote:

> Hi!  This is partly by way of a test (whether I can post) and also a
> request:
> 
> Where are the sources to PCELM?  The limited documentation says that
> the sources to the original version are available from the authors (or
> rather were in 1994, I've tried emailing them but haven't had a
> response yet) but I gather Demon did some changes?  At least, Demon's
> PCELM 1.11 isn't the same as PCELM 3.21 which seems (from archie) to be
> the 'distribution' version...

I've always assumed that Demon based "their" PCElm on the Siebeck and 
Freiss v3.0 and if so you need to pay for the source. However, if it's 
based on their earlier version, circa v1.9, the source is still freely 
available.
S & F lost interest around v1.9 and a chap called Kelvin Hill took over 
and brought out v2.0 - 2.2. I've never seen 2.2, but the source for 2.1 
is freely available (at least it was a couple of years ago). I've been 
told that v2.1 is only minor tweaks away from v1.9.
Of course, even if it is based on the 1.9 vintage, if Demon won't 
release their changes you're no further forward unless you just need 
somewhere to start.

In passing, what's so good about PCElm ? I started with it, but I don't 
remember being all that impressed.

Ian.
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