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From: johnr@oceania.UUCP (John Robison)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: /usr/dict/{web2,web2a} (Librarian Reference)
Keywords: web,tex,web2,web2a
Message-ID: <1991May9.195110.2111@oceania.UUCP>
Date: 9 May 91 19:51:10 GMT
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Well, nobody really has any answers, and neither do I.
I did, however, find a clue...

From NeXTAnswers registry.286 (Mar 1991):

> Here are known extensions that are not (yet) listed 
> in the online documentation:

[ stuff deleted]

>   web		TeX  (meta-level TeX source)

[ more stuff deleted]

> Valid for 1.0 
> Not checked yet for 2.0 
> 

So It might be safe to assume these are needed for TeX ??
This is curious, because 2.0 comes without TeX installed!!
If they exist on other machines, you can assume that they
are NOT NeXT only things...

Still a mystery!!!
BTW, I did a digital librarian search on "web"
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