This  is  the  source  code to TFPCX273. This distribution is in a special
format for copyright reasons.

How about it?

The  source  of  TF27B  is  made  available  by  NORD><LINK under the ALAS
licence.  It  is  a  licence  like  the  GNU General Public Licence but it
restricts  commercial  use.  Read  about the usage conditions in the TF27B
directory.

The  source  of  TFPCX  is  made  available  under  the GNU General Public
Licence.  It  was  using an earlyer version of NORD><LINK's TheFirmware. I
will refrain to take a point wether this was legal or not.

The  source  remains  separated  in  this  archive.  The  directory  TF27B
contains  the ALAS protected NORD><LINK code. The directory TFPCX contains
DG0FT's  files  which I altered and a diff file to TF27B, protected by the
GNU General Public Licence.

A  batch file "gensrc.bat" will generate from those two sources the source
code  for  TFPCX273.  I  leave  it  to  the  lawers to judge if this is an
extension  to  TFPCX  and therefore GNU GPL protected or an enhancement to
TF27B  under  ALAS  protection.  Since ALAS is a subset of the GNU General
Public  License  it  is  save  to  assume  that the resulting code is also
protected by ALAS. That is the only way to allow usage of TF27B. Still you
can  of  course commercially use the code in the TFPCX directory but it is
of not much use without TF27B.

Sorry  about  the confusion but that's the way both copyright holders have
set the conditions of usage.

Run  "GENSRC.BAT"  to  generate  the source files. To compile you need the
Microsoft  C++  compiler  from MSVC++ 1.5 and MASM 5.00. Another Microsoft
compiler  version  may  also  work but this is the one with which the code
was tested.

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Generation in the directory SRC type:
        nmake -f tfpcx.mak
        nmake -f tfpcx286.mak
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To  generate  the source I used the program PATCH by Larry Wall et al. The
source   to   PATCH   can  be  found  on  the  internet.  I  included  the
documentation. The following copyright notice applies to PATCH:

--------------------------------------------------------------------------
			Patch Kit, Version 2.0

		    Copyright (c) 1988, Larry Wall

You may copy the patch kit in whole or in part as long as you don't try to
make money off it, or pretend that you wrote it.
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I hope you enjoy it. Kind regards,


Henk de Groot - PE1DNN@PI8APD.#GLD.NLD.EU