Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 16:56:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill/Carolyn Pechter <pechter@shell.monmouth.com> To: kline@tera.com (Gary Kline) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: style and diction Message-ID: <199606112056.QAA19237@shell.monmouth.com> In-Reply-To: <199606112034.NAA21213@athena.tera.com> from "Gary Kline" at Jun 11, 96 01:34:18 pm
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> > According to Garrett Wollman: > > <<On Mon, 10 Jun 1996 16:08:36 -0500 (CDT), sfuqua@pulsar.cs.wku.edu (Stephen Fuqua) said: > > > > > Whatever became of style, diction, and other programs from the "writer's workbench?" > > > > So far as I know, these programs have never been part of the BSD > > system. I associate them exclusively with System V and its > > predecessors (and thus the ATTIS/USG/USL/Novell/SCO side of the > > family). > > > > The diction suite was part of 4.4BSD-alpha. But it got > snagged out during the litigation that gave us Lite2. > > I bought some DOS shareware years ago that was a clone > of part of the functionality of diction, style, etc., so > it can't be that hard to clone. Just requires someone > with an exceptional grasp of English. Plus the savvy > to do the hack... . > > diction was written by profs at Brown or Cornell or one > of those 15 or more years ago. It might not hurt to > ask people in the English Department <<wherevre>> if > they'd like to help create a clone or a superset. > > gary kline Ah, what I'd like to see is "learn" reimplemented. Anyone ever see that on the net anywhere? Bill ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Pechter/Carolyn Pechter | 17 Meredith Drive, Tinton Falls, NJ 07724, 908-389-3592 | pechter@shell.monmouth.com I'll run Win95 on my box when you pry the keyboard from my cold, dead hands. FreeBSD, OS/2, CP/M, RT11, spoken here.
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