13 Jun
2023
13 Jun
'23
11:32 p.m.
On Tue, Jun 13, 2023 at 1:05 PM segaloco via COFF <coff(a)tuhs.org> wrote:
The permuted index is surprisingly useful in this
regard but isn't always
there in manpage sources, you'd have to generate it.
Indeed. @Doug do you know who was the brilliant person that came up with
that tool and built the first UNIX PTX? I always felt they should be lauded
for that piece of work!
It was something that when I first learned about UNIX that I did like. I
was primarily coming from TOPS and TSS, and UNIX was strange when I first
saw it -- cat instead of print or type, of course, being the first
roadblock. But when I found the PTX was one of the first times that
"light dawned on marble head."
I saw UNIX long before "learn" was released, but I certainly had helped
enough new users by the time it was available that the "learn" tool, a
printed copy of the man pages, and PTX were where I told "newbies" to start.
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