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From: ptok@void.caltech.edu (phillip tokumaru)
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Subject: Re: /usr/dict/{web2,web2a}
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Date: 8 May 91 16:30:59 GMT
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In article <1991May8.144744.10089@watserv1.waterloo.edu>  
wgilbert@fatou.UWaterloo.ca (William Gilbert) writes:
> The same files, web2 and web2a, are on our Unix mainframe so I expect they 
> are part of the BSD.  I assume they are used by the Unix "spell" as
> supplemental dictionary files, though there is no mention of them in the
> man pages for "spell".

From the Man Page for TeX:

     TeX  was designed by Donald E. Knuth, who implemented it
     using his WEB system for Pascal programs.  It was ported to
     Unix at Stanford by Howard Trickey, and at Cornell by Pavel
     Curtis.  This version is a combination of their efforts.

My guess is that you only need web to complie TeX and Knuth-related stuff.

web2a = WEB -> assembly ????