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From: glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: /usr/dict/{web2,web2a}
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Date: 9 May 91 03:33:03 GMT
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phillip tokumaru writes
> 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 ????

I forgot about "web".  Maybe it is part of TeX.  But it's definitely
not a filter to assembly language.  Here are the first few lines
from the "web2a" file:

A acid
abacus major
abacus pythagoricus
A battery
abbey counter
abbey laird
abbey lands
abbey lubber
abbot cloth
Abbott papyrus

I renamed them to some other file names and so far nothing has broken, but
it will probably break silently a year from now, long after I've forgotten
that I deleted the files :-)

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