From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jun 10 10:11:32 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA17502 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 10 Jun 1997 10:11:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (root@andrsn.Stanford.EDU [36.33.0.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA17495 for ; Tue, 10 Jun 1997 10:11:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (andrsn@localhost.Stanford.EDU [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id KAA12356; Tue, 10 Jun 1997 10:11:19 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 10:11:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson To: Kevin Eliuk cc: FreeBSD-Hackers , Joerg Wunsch Subject: Re: Learn Program In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 10 Jun 1997, Kevin Eliuk wrote: > > Hello, > > Thanks to Annelise Anderson, Brian Kernighan has made > accessible the old source code for `Unix Learn'. The Actually primary thanks are owed to Marty Leisner! > old source is in bad need of updating. It can be found at: > > http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/bwk/learn.tar.gz > > :for anyone that would be interested in looking at it to > see what it would take to make this a workable program again. > > Joerg has written some patches already that I will forward upon > request. > > Thank you and I look forward to hearing from you :) "Learn" runs on all of Stanford's generally accessible unix machines. The source code as they revised it is available on my anonymous ftp server at andrsn.stanford.edu. Kernighan's purpose in creating the program was, according to those files, to provide direct interaction with the unix system. From the little I've used it, "learn" seems to be a systematic and orderly way to learn unix basics from a user point of view, and it might be worthwhile to provide such a utility. Annelise