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To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
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Subject: Re: An interesting man page from version 3 unix. 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 30 Jan 2002 11:46:37 +1030."
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Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 23:08:03 -0500
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In message <20020130114637.A53459@wantadilla.lemis.com>, Greg Lehey writes:
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>On Tuesday, 29 January 2002 at 20:09:45 -0500, Andrew Lankford wrote:
>> In message <20020129145151.R37206@wantadilla.lemis.com>, Greg Lehey writes:
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>I'm not sure how it worked, but I'd be surprised if there were a
>linker.  Typically you'd just enter the source into the interpreter
>and run it in that environment.  Remember this wasn't a systems
>programming language.

Ken Thompson's homepage has a link to the B manual:

http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/kbman.html

Section 10.0 has directions for "compiling" with /etc/bc and several
other steps for producing an executable from that.  Looks like the
proverbial sausage recipe.  Interesting, anyway.

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