From owner-freebsd-announce Wed Jul 23 05:25:52 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id FAA13695 for freebsd-announce-outgoing; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 05:25:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id FAA13688 for ; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 05:25:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.6/8.6.9) with ESMTP id FAA03913 for ; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 05:24:27 -0700 (PDT) To: announce@freebsd.org Subject: Learn effort now underway. Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 05:24:26 -0700 Message-ID: <3909.869660666@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-announce@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk [Posted on behalf of Kevin Eliuk] Hello, With the joined efforts of Joerg Wunsch, Annelise Anderson, Marty Leisner, and myself, Brian Kernighan has given the approval to include into distribution a Learn program witten by him and Michael Lesk. This program is circa 1979, therefore needing a lot of work to get it up to present in terms of content as well as making it work effectively into FreeBSD. "Kernighan's purpose in creating the program was, ac- cording to those files, to provide direct interaction with the unix system. From the little I've used it, "learn" seems to be a systematic and orderly way to learn unix basics from a user point of view, and it might be worthwhile to provide such a utility." Annelise Anderson Help is needed! The current src of 'learn' is available via CVSup. Just put learn-all release=cvs in your supfile, if you are interested in using it in it's cur- rent form and/or would like to contribute to its Lessons. A README in the learn directory as well as learn.ms will give you an overview of the program. Any questions can be sent to "learners@FreeBSD.org". --