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From: zeke@fasttech.com (Bohdan Tashchuk)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: How was BSD written?
Message-ID: <CL4zyu.su@fasttech.com>
Date: 13 Feb 94 00:28:01 GMT
Article-I.D.: fasttech.CL4zyu.su
References: <CKxEpn.1Lq@candle.uucp> <1994Feb9.055849.9351@nuchat.sccsi.com> <CL1C9p.LyA@rahul.net>
Organization: Fast Technology --- Beaverton, OR
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In <CL1C9p.LyA@rahul.net> dhesi@rahul.net (Rahul Dhesi) writes:

>Maybe they used the following script?

>     #! /bin/sh
>     # BSD to SVR4 translator -- alpha version, may still have bugs
>     grep -i -v 'copyright'

Nah. This couldn't be the actual AT&T script. They add all their own
copyright boilerplate to every file translated. :-)

(Revisions to script left as an exercise for the reader.)

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