ProtoCiv: porting Freeciv to Python CANNED

Tim Rowe tim at remove_if_not_spam.digitig.co.uk
Wed Feb 18 06:57:27 EST 2004


On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 09:37:39 -0500, François Pinard
<pinard at iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:

>[Andrew Dalke]
>> My favorite program for this is /bin/true.  On some machines it is 0
>> bytes long.
>
>Yet, the AT&T empty file for True is heavily copyrighted.  Stretching
>the meaning a bit (maybe more than a bit!), it amuses me to think that
>nobody may produce an empty file anymore without being indebted to them.

Ah! So /that's/ why most versions contain a revision control comment
(and nothing else).



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