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To: Kevin Eliuk <kevin_eliuk@sunshine.net>
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        Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu>,
        Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>, bostic@bostic.com
Subject: Re: Learn Program 
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Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 15:35:24 PDT
From: "Marty Leisner" <leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com>
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> 
> Hello,
> 
> Thanks to Annelise Anderson, Brian Kernighan has made 
> accessible the old source code for `Unix Learn'.  The 
> 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 :)
>   

Well, I looked at the learn and while the lessons are the
same as the BSD version (except for structure), the code is very
different...

Do we want to start with the BSD version (i.e. free up the BSD 
source?)



-- 
marty
leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com  
The Feynman problem solving Algorithm
        1) Write down the problem
        2) Think real hard
        3) Write down the answer
                Murray Gel-mann in the NY Times