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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!bostic From: bostic@toe.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Keith Bostic) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Why is ching(6) not present in 4.4BSD and its offspring? Date: 27 Oct 1994 22:27:49 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 22 Message-ID: <38p9h5$6i1@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <38lt9r$ool@linda.teleport.com> <38n0uuINN7m4@rrzs3.uni-regensburg.de> <38oegb$mtc@agate.berkeley.edu> <38p18e$6ho@linda.teleport.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: toe.cs.berkeley.edu In article <38p18e$6ho@linda.teleport.com>, Max Bell <mbell@teleport.com> wrote: >In article <38oegb$mtc@agate.berkeley.edu>, >Keith Bostic <bostic@toe.CS.Berkeley.EDU> wrote: >}Ching(6) is a computer game/simulation of casting against the >}I Ching or Book of Changes. Parts of the code were proprietary >}to AT&T/USL/Novell, and were never replaced with a freely >}redistributable implementation, and therefore could not be >}included on 4.4BSD-Lite. > >I wasn't clear enough in my original question about ching(6)'s status. I >suspected it contained A/U/N code, but I want to know if the text file it used >is also claimed by A/U/N. The text file has roff style macros interspersed in the text, so my guess is that such a claim would valid. I've been looking for an online copy of the I Ching text for awhile, to free the program up, but never saw one. --keith