Re: anyone have details of "include" patent?

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From: Vincent Manis
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 1990 03:15

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I don't know about the patent, but the 1960 version of Cobol had a COPY
clause. There was a COPY statement in IBM 1401 Autocoder (assembler,
circa 1962), as well as in IBM System/360 Assembler (circa 1964). PL/I
(F), circa 1966, had a %include statement.

I'd be inclined to say, then, that including source files is not likely
to stand up as patentable; and, even if it was, that patent will have
long-since run out. 

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