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From: stampe@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (David Stampe)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: MIT Teco manual sought
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Date: 7 Dec 89 13:51:48 GMT
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In-reply-to: eliot@phoenix.Princeton.EDU's message of 7 Dec 89 00:17:02 GMT

There are copies of the MIT Teco manual and many other Twenex info files
on tut.cis.ohio-state.edu in pub/gnu/emacs/elisp-archive/info/.  Namely:

biblio.info.Z  columns.info.Z  conv.info.Z  crtsty.info.Z  dir.info.Z
docond.info.Z  eclu.info.Z  efortran.info.Z  emacs.info.Z  epasc.info.Z
epl1.info.Z  etex.info.Z  exec.info.Z  info.info.Z  inter.info.Z
ispell.info.Z  itstty.info.Z  ivory.info.Z  jargon.info.Z  jsysaf.info.Z
jsysnr.info.Z  jsyssz.info.Z  languages.info.Z  ledit.info.Z  mail.Z
midas.info.Z  modlin.info.Z  pdp-10.info.Z  renum.info.Z  rguide.info.Z
rsx20f.info.Z  slowly.info.Z  srccom.info.Z  standards.info.Z  tags.info.Z
tdebug.info.Z  teco.info.Z  tecord.info.Z  tmacs.info.Z  vt100.info.Z
wordab.info.Z  xgp.info.Z  atsign.info.Z  babyl.info.Z  haz1510.info.Z
jsysgm.info.Z  mkdump.info.Z  satire.info.Z  terms.info.Z

I believe that tecord.info is RMS's original file, while teco.info is
Lum Johnson's version, with a node for each Teco command.  (Lum,
please correct me if I've got it backwards.)  emacs.info is the Twenex
Emacs manual.  conv.info is RMS's manual on programming Emacs in Teco.

jargon.info is a slightly edited original, circa 1980, of The Hacker's
Dictionary, with etymologies for kludge and split-p soup.

Most of these are compatible with the GNU info format, so if you just put
them into your ...emacs/info/ directory, and add a line for each in your
...emacs/info/dir file, you can read them in info.

Now, two questions:

 * Whatever happened to the old file called Alice's PDP11 (or some such)?

 * There used to be an MIT AI Lab report on the design and philosophy
   of (Twenex) Emacs.  (I've forgotten the author - it was not RMS).
   Does a machine-readable copy of this exists anywhere?

David Stampe (stampe@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu)