[HECnet] Re: VMS sources

[Brian Schenkenberger, VAXman-]

John Wilson <wilson at dbit.com> writes: 

From: <Paul_Koning at Dell.com> 

Can't search microfiche, and a fiche reader is a clumsy and hard to use
contraption. 

I always figured that was the whole point.   You had to do a *lot* of
squinting and typing before you could do anything that DEC didn't want
you to. 

How do you figure.   Fiche was the media of its day and listings were
for reference; not intended to you to rebuild VMS.   When CD-rom first
appeared on the scene, DEC put the listings on CD-rom.   You could run
utilities like UNLIS (I believe my good buddy Hunter wrote that) which
could give you sanitized source but I wouldn't try to use it do to the
Copyright.   The "listing" portion is far more valuable than the source
itself.

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