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 Message 262,208 of 264,034 
 Dan Cross to johnrreagan@earthlink.net 
 Re: VMS Pascal article 
 07 Jan 25 23:02:58 
 
From: cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net

In article <4fce5c9d3be918e8a00edccd228701713d4fd059@i2pn2.org>,
John Reagan   wrote:
>On 1/7/2025 4:04 PM, Dan Cross wrote:
>> In article <73aedef89896db7fe5bc43b8d47a8560537c6a48@i2pn2.org>,
>> John Reagan   wrote:
>>> [snip]
>>> I have a copy of Theo De Klerk's book on my bookshelf.  I did the
>>> technical review of that book (wow, that is a long time ago!)
>>
>> It looks like it would be a very nice reference; it's a that it
>> is no longer available.  I wonder if the author retained rights,
>> or if those lie with Digital Press?  If the former, perhaps the
>> electronic copy others mentioned might show up in the Internet
>> Archive's library or something similar.
>
>Good question.  My last email exchange with Theo was several years ago.
>I suspect that Digital Press (or who ever bought all of their IP) would
>still own the copyright to that version but could he provide an "almost
>final draft" for some archive in much the same way the C/C++ standard
>committees provide "drafts" of the standards to avoid copyright issues.

That would be very cool!  There aren't that many books about
OpenVMS out there, it seems; even fewer about application
development.  It would be great to have a few titles available.

	- Dan C.

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