Re(2): Grind files update

[John_L._Graham@adbbs.antioch.edu (John L. Graham)]

I know I'd feel pretty naked if someone disassembled my stuff and ULed it.
I'll never forget an experience I had a few years back when I first started
writing astronomy software. I had some really large Applesoft BASIC programs
(Tonight's Sky GS started life in Applesoft on my II+) that a local amateur
astronomer was interested in, so I gave him a copy. I was really proud of my
work and stuck some credits in the intro menu. A few years later I was
looking through PD disks at a computer fair and found some interesting
looking astronomy titles and bought them. Hmmmm, they looked aweful familiar
but I couldn't quite place them, until I listed the source code. They were my
own programs! Someone had taken my credits out of the intro screen, but left
them in the REMs I had thrown in. I was soooo saddened that someone would do
that. there I was, a young hacker excited to find someone actually thought
enough of my programs to spread them around, but no one would ever know I
wrote them. Ever since I've ULed ONLY compiled code, and the stuff that's
important to me is REALLY registered with a copyright. If soemone's gonna
steal it they're at least gonna have to do a little work.

The funny thing is, I've come full circle. For some strange reason I'd like
to finish what I started ooohh so many years ago; and astronomy package that
will run on a II+. Once again I'm hacking Applesoft code, only this time I'm
using MD BASIC. It'll still be Applesoft and hackable, but it won't be pretty
:)

-John