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   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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