[COFF] Re: [TUHS] Re: crt0 -- what's in that name?

[Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com>]

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On Tue, Jun 13, 2023 at 1:05 PM segaloco via COFF <coff@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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