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From: Al Woodhull <aswNS@helios.hampshire.edu>
Subject: Re: Ack!
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On Fri, 16 Jun 2000 20:50:55 GMT Arsa Milas <millaer@my-deja.com>
wrote in comp.os.minix:

: Does anyone know where all of the complete sources for ACK can be
: downloaded?

Until now the source for ACK was not available. Andy had to get
special permission from his university (which owns the copyright) to
distribute it in binary form.

It was recently announced that this has changed, the university has
agreed to allow full distribution, but actually getting the source into 
a form suitable for distribution is going to be a slow process because 
nobody is being paid to it.

I don't personally know much more than this, but I believe there was
some discussion on comp.os.minix. You might want to look in the
newsgroup archives at ftp://minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au/minix/news/.

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