On Sun 20 Jul 2014 at 17:39:32 +0000, Christian Koch wrote: > /usr/share/dict/words. > it really shouldn't be the responsibility of an OS to maintain this > kind of information anyway. But Unix isn't just an operating system, it is historically a document preparation system. See http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-textprocess.html. And the various papers in the User's Supplementary Documents that were typically distributed with Unix (and partially still with NetBSD). From cvs/src/share/doc/usd/00.contents I list (not all are still included with NetBSD, but of many I have hardcopies from an Ultrix grey wall): Text Editing .tl 'A Tutorial Introduction to the Unix Text Editor''USD:9' .tl 'Advanced Editing on Unix''USD:10' .tl 'An Introduction to Display Editing with Vi''USD:11' .tl 'Ex Reference Manual (Version 3.7)''USD:12' .tl 'Vi Reference Manual''USD:13' .tl 'Jove Manual for UNIX Users''USD:14' .tl 'SED \- A Non-interactive Text Editor''USD:15' .tl 'AWK \- A Pattern Scanning and Processing Language (Second Edition)''USD:16' Document Preparation .tl 'Typing Documents on UNIX: Using the \-ms Macros with Troff and Nroff''USD:17' .tl 'A Revised Version of \-ms''USD:18' .tl 'Writing Papers with \fInroff\fR using \-me''USD:19' .tl '\-me Reference Manual''USD:20' .tl 'NROFF/TROFF User\'s Manual''USD:21' .tl 'A TROFF Tutorial''USD:22' .tl 'A System for Typesetting Mathematics''USD:23' .tl 'Typesetting Mathematics \- User\'s Guide (Second Edition)''USD:24' .tl 'Tbl \- A Program to Format Tables''USD:25' .tl 'Refer \- A Bibliography System''USD:26' .tl 'Some Applications of Inverted Indexes on the UNIX System''USD:27' .tl 'BIB \- A Program for Formatting Bibliographies''USD:28' .tl 'Writing Tools \- The STYLE and DICTION Programs''USD:29' -Olaf. -- ___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert -- The Doctor: No, 'eureka' is Greek for \X/ rhialto/at/xs4all.nl -- 'this bath is too hot.'
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