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From: schwartz@gondor.cs.psu.edu (Scott Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Software tools
Summary: Kernighan & Plaugher
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Date: 27 Mar 88 20:02:28 GMT
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In article <880321082824.00000618071@naif.JPL.NASA.GOV> PJS@naif.JPL.NASA.GOV (Peter Scott) writes:
>Years ago, there lived on our machine a directory tree called [TOOLS...]
>(it might even have been [DECUS.TOOLS...], which contained a bunch of
>programs and libraries which I later recognize as being VMS FORTRAN
>emulations of Unix commands and software tools routines.  

Sounds like you had the sources presented in "Software Tools" by
Brian Kernighan & P.J. Plaugher, Addison Wesley, 1976.  In the 1981
update, "Software Tools in Pascal"  it says that all the code in the
book is available from the publisher in machine readable form.

-- Scott Schwartz                       | Your array may be without head or     
        schwartz@gondor.cs.psu.edu      | tail, yet it will be proof against
                                        | defeat.  -- Sun Tzu, "The Art of War"