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  1. Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!slxsys!dircon!uad1077
  3. From: uad1077@dircon.co.uk (Ian Kemmish)
  4. Subject: Re: NeWS
  5. Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 19:33:02 GMT
  6. Message-ID: <1992Dec22.193302.20980@dircon.co.uk>
  7. References: <1992Dec17.205058.12133@gandalf.UMCS.Maine.EDU> <1992Dec18.171830.13334@trilithon.mpk.ca.us> <id.WC0W.15H@ferranti.com>
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  10. peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva) writes:
  11. >Unfortunately, Sun killed NeWS and doesn't seem interested in doing anything
  12. >smart (like releasing it under an X-like license) to revive it.
  13.  
  14. This morning's junk mail included a catalogue from a bookseller which
  15. reminded me that NeWS (well, xnews) is officially part of System V r 4,
  16. and therefore not only AT&T but a lot of other people have it too.
  17. Given the way standards seem to devolve, maybe people will start
  18. compiling this strange beast when they port UNIX to their products,
  19. now that Sun have dropped it:-)
  20.  
  21. -- 
  22. Ian D. Kemmish                    Tel. +44 767 601 361
  23. 18 Durham Close                   uad1077@dircon.co.uk
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