Video TECO

Hello, World! I took a cursory look through the archives at classiccmp, and I was disappointed to discover that the response to my having found the Video TECO tarball was lukewarm to negative. I understand that I may have committed a few mistakes along the way, but this was compounded by the fact that several other messages that I had written clarifying my reasons were not additionally sent to classiccmp. First of all, I had asked for and received permission from Paul Cantrell, my flying instructor, to have the source code. I had looked for it on sourceforge in vain, as the downloads section was completely empty. This was when I asked Paul to send me the source, which he did. In addition to this, I found a patch for Video TECO on another Web site, with a dead link---I also requested and received the patch. Only lately did I discover that the Video TECO tarball was available on CVS. Second, I understand the issue with licencing, and I take this moment to apologise. My actions were wrong, and I made the stupid error of not looking to see in the file whether there was a licence or not. My reasoning for publishing it under Sleepycat was the additional clause that if the software is bundled, the software it is bundled with should also be open source. I see now that I was mistaken, and I apologise for all the inconvenience it may cause. Third, I apologise for perhaps being unclear in my first post. For instance, Mr Alderson mistakenly believed or believes that I had implied that the original Video TECO (for DEC PDP's) had been lost. No, it hasn't, and yes, I've heard of it. alt.lang.teco? Seriously? There hasn't been a new post there in months! What there is is generic Viagra and "V1c0d1n" spam! Yes, maybe some of the other newsgroups I should perhaps have asked, but I thought I could have been excused from that as I did have the source code straight from the horse's mouth so to speak. Mr Stephens: there's a patch available that should fix your problems; it's on my Sourceforge site. Also: yes, I've made a few mistakes, but if someone would please help me on this project, it would be greatly appreciated. I am writing documentation for it (using Cantrell's very rough html file and some DEC manuals as a base), several pages per day, but I can't do the whole thing by myself. I mean, I can finish the docs by myself in a week or two if I work hard, but the rest of it might be a more dicey proposition. Cordially, Ted Matavka.