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From: mbell@teleport.com (Max Bell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Why is ching(6) not present in 4.4BSD and its offspring?
Date: 27 Oct 1994 13:06:38 -0700
Organization: Teleport - Portland's Public Access (503) 220-1016
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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.

Max
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