segaloco wrote:
... the quoted section was likely in the intro
preceding the TOC and permuted index
...
https://www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V3/man/man0/basinf
This basinf file persisted until somewhere between V6 and V7 when it was merged with
intro.
Ah.
Under HOW TO GET STARTED
on page 7:
_How to communicate through your terminal._ When you type to UNIX, the
characters are collected and saved by the system. The characters will
not be given to the program until you type a return (or new-line), as
described above in _Logging in._
So it seems that bit of whimsy was excised early on. At least the
pages still have BUGS sections, which I seem to recall DEC found
necessary to expunge at some point!