FA> Com ports, i'd get a com port library or steal it out of binkley. :-)
PE> Not a good idea, given that it's Gnu Virus Licensed.  BFN.  Paul.
FA> I was kidding !:-)
FA> NTL looking at someone else's code and writing your own version of that
FA> idea could be considered sort of stealing too ? 

Code is normally not patentable.  There are a *VERY FEW* number of software
patents in the world.  Binkley's comms routines are not one of them.

FA> Yet i think most of us do it often enough.

So?

FA> What is "virus licensed", first time i've heard that term ?

They attempt to tell you what you can do with your own work, if you attempt
to use any of theirs.  If that isn't a virus, I don't know what is.  BFN. 
Paul.
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