Newsgroups: comp.lang.apl
Path: watmath!ljdickey
From: ljdickey@watmath.waterloo.edu (L.J.Dickey)
Subject: Re: Looking for most current Berkley UCS UNIX APL source code
Message-ID: <1991Jul9.180704.5470@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Organization: University of Waterloo
References: <1991Jul9.011056.18116@iphase.uucp> <1991Jul9.164014.26874@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>
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Date: Tue, 9 Jul 1991 18:07:04 GMT
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In article <1991Jul9.164014.26874@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> sam@kalessin.jpl.nasa.gov (Sam Sirlin) writes:
>In article <1991Jul9.011056.18116@iphase.uucp>, chuck@iphase.uucp (Chuck Diehl COMM) writes:
>|>     I am trying to locate the most recent version of the old UNIX/11 source
>|> code (originally written by Ken Thompson, I believe) from the User
>|> Contributed Software in the Berkley Distribution.  Thanks!
>
>Someone gave me a version of this. No dates, no version numbers, but in one
>file (eed.doc) there seems to be a date about 1981 (V7.13 81/07/25). 
>
>Is this code proprietary? Can it be redistributed? Do you need an ATT 
>source licence (or some such). I tried to get this awhile ago from both 
>Berkeley and Purdue. Those at Purdue seem to have forgotten they wrote it,
>Berkeley seemed to say they'll give it to someone with the appropriate 
>site licence (not cheap). I do know the code doesn't run as is on my Sun.

The code as distributed by BSD is buggy, and, to the best of my
knowledge, no one at Berkley Software Distribution maintains it or
takes any responsibility for it.  This means that any bug fixes that
have been done have not been incorporated in the distributed version.

A few years ago, Mr Ken Yap of Rochester, NY, did much good work on
this interpreter, removing byte order dependencies, adding APL
character set of Sun work stations, and repairing bugs,  ( -/X  and
divide / X , for instance ).  At that time, he was willing to
distribute his copy, provided one gave evidence of posessing the right
kind of license.  It has been some time since I have corresponded with
Ken when I knew him as "ken@rochester.arpa".  Brief use of the "host"
command (host -a rochester.edu) and the "finger" command (finger
ken@cayuga.cs.rochester.edu)  indicates that Ken has moved to
Australia.  Here is what I found:


[cayuga.cs.rochester.edu]
Login name: ken       			In real life: Ken Yap
Office: 725 CompSci,  x5-1448
Directory: /u/ken                   	Shell: /bin/csh
Last login Mon Jun 17 22:17 on ttyp0 from lynx.csis.dit.cs
Project: Anything interesting
Plan:
	Just be.

Home Address: (DO NOT forward mail to this address)
	7/58-60 Oxford Street,
	Epping, NSW 2121,
	Australia
	Phone: +61 8685317

Work Address: (Forward all mail here)
	CSIRO Division of Information Technology,
	Datronics Building,
	Corner Lane Cove and Epping Roads,
	North Ryde, NSW 2113,
	Australia

	Email: ken@syd.dit.csiro.au
	Phone: +61 2 8879307 (GMT+10)
		     8879365 (direct line)
	Fax: +61 2 8887787
	Telex: AA73831

The aim of life, its only aim, is to be free.  Free of what?  Free to do
what?  Only to be free, that is all.  Free through ourselves, free to be
sad, to be in pain; free to grow old and die.  This is what our soul
desires, and this freedom it must have; and shall have.

R. H. Blyth

-- 
Prof L.J. Dickey, Faculty of Mathematics, U of Waterloo, Canada N2L 3G1
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