Unix Version 7 'learn' command (CAI) - additional configuration necessary?
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I'm going through the 'Unix Programming Environment' classic by Kernighan and Pike.
I discovered there was a very interesting command written by Kernighan and someone else called
learn
for computer aided instruction on Unix subjects like editing, macros and even C in version 7 and, it seems some of the BSD's. I've got a copy of Version 7 up and running in SimH to have a mess around with this stuff and it does indeed have a functioning learn command. However, it only gives the introduction, which asks you to choose a subject/lesson - when you type in 'files' etc, it just returns "sorry, there is no lesson named ..." or similar.
There ARE lessons, or files called files.a
, macros.a
in the /usr/lib/learn
directory of the version I got from the simh website.
Does this mean I have to do some additional setup before the lessons are ready to use? Or, perhaps the lesson scripts aren't there in this copy? At the moment, I haven't yet created a new user, seeing as the default was dmr
with no password.
Someone has asked about this before, but more in the direction of installing it on a modern system. Anyone know if there's a Unix I could use with simh that definitely does have this and with working lessons?
Asked by Kevin Smallman
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Jul 28, 2019, 03:50 PM
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