Ralph Corderoy <ra...@inputplus.co.uk>:
> Perhaps [ideal has] become available since then as part of one of their
> re-licensings?

I can find no evidence of any such happy development on the web.

> Are you aware of
> 
>     http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/cstr/103.ps.gz,
>     CSTR #103, C. J. Van Wyk, Bell Labs, December 1981.

I was not, but have now read it.  Emulating all that behavior exactly 
would be quite difficult.

Does anyone have contact with the author?  I cannot think of any other
plaisible way to trace the location of the code back to a person
with release authority at Alcatel-Lucent.
-- 
                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>

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