[Discuss] learn or teach programs

[John Abreau]

BTL == "Bell Telephone Laboratories". Where UNIX was born.



On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 5:35 PM, Mike Small <smallm at panix.com> wrote:

>
> Eric Chadbourne <eric.chadbourne at gmail.com> writes:
> > I don't see in on my Ubuntu laptop.  Would be a neat option to have.
> >
>
> I'm not sure it's exactly the same program cause it doesn't mention John
> Kunze, but if you want it you should be able to pull from OpenBSD's
> repository as long as you use a tag of OPENBSD_4_7_BASE. Here's the
> readme from a commit labeled, "import BTL learn(1)"  (BTL?):
>
> "Learn was originally written by Mike Lesk with some contributions
> from Brian Kernighan.  The paper in this directory dates from the
> second version of learn, around 1979.
>
> This version of learn has been resurrected from the original V7
> source and edited enough that the source compiles and the
> lessons can be executed.  We have made no attempt to update the
> lessons, nor to fix some of the glaring problems with the code.
> Think of it as a historical document, not a polished system.
>
> cd src
> make
> learn"
>
> --
> http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/learn/Attic/README?rev=1.1.1.1;hideattic=0;only_with_tag=OPENBSD_4_7_BASE
>
> Seems they yanked it out a few years ago:
>
> "Remove a long-dead skeleton found under the floorboards.
> "go for it" tedu@, "kill it" deraadt@"
>
> --
> http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/learn/Attic/README?hideattic=0
>
>
> > On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 12:39 PM, Mike Small <smallm at panix.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Was re-reading The Unix Programming Environment by K&P. In the first
> >> chapter it suggests you look for a program named learn or teach on your
> ...
> >> I don't have such a thing on my home system (OpenBSD), but panix's
> >> NetBSD system seems to still have one named learn by John Kunze. This is
> >> all I could find on the web about it:
> >>
> http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/pups/PDP-11/Trees/2.11BSD/usr/src/usr.bin/learn/
> >>
> http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/pups/PDP-11/Trees/2.11BSD/usr/src/share/learn/
>
>
> --
> Mike Small
> smallm at panix.com
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