Locating a copy of "The Lions Document"
Ron Saad
ron at ron1.UUCP
Thu Jan 9 15:15:17 AEST 1986
In article <7953 at amdcad.UUCP> phil at amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai) writes:
>In article <182 at ecrcvax.UUCP> dave at ecrcvax.UUCP (David Morton) writes:
>>
>>I thought that Bell or AT & T or whatever they were called at that
>>time "persuaded" Lyons (not Lions) to forget the idea of publishing this
>>documment which contains (contained) Bell source code ?
>>Thus, to my ill informed knowledge, any published copy is illegal. I may
>>be wrong on this issue. The document is widely available but not officially
>>published.
>
>That's right, you're wrong. In fact, AT&T is a distributor of the
>document. As part of a Unix source license (for V7 at least) you are
>allowed to request one copy. I have one. Pretty expensive book, if you
>don't qualify for an educational Unix license and the book was all you
>wanted. There are two volumes, a reformatted printout of the V6 source
>code, and comments on that source code.
>--
> Smokers are the lepers of the 80's.
>
> Phil Ngai +1 408 749 5720
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According to (800) 828-UNIX, they are no longer distributing the
documents. The person I spoke to said that they 'had kept a copy for
archival purposes' and totally eliminated distribution as of about 6
months ago. The person said this was due to the document being
'outdated' (since it deals with version 6 code).
Oh well.
Ron.
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