From sarr@umich.edu Sun Oct 28 20:31:45 PST 2001 Article: 6471 of alt.sys.pdp10 Path: nntp1.ba.best.com!news1.best.com!news2.best.com!feed2.news.rcn.net!rcn!newsfeed1.earthlink.net!newsfeed2.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!lsanca1-snf1!paloalto-snh1.gtei.net!paloalto-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!enews.sgi.com!news.eecs.umich.edu!srvr1.engin.umich.edu!sarr Newsgroups: alt.sys.pdp10 Subject: Re: Compuserve's -10/-20 systems References: <3BDCB209.97890F@bartek.dontspamme.net> Reply-To: sarr@umich.edu Organization: University of Michigan From: sarr@engin.umich.edu (Sarr J. Blumson) Lines: 22 Message-ID: Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 02:47:06 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.75.146.69 X-Trace: srvr1.engin.umich.edu 1004323626 207.75.146.69 (Sun, 28 Oct 2001 21:47:06 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 21:47:06 EST Xref: nntp1.ba.best.com alt.sys.pdp10:6471 In article <3BDCB209.97890F@bartek.dontspamme.net>, Arthur Krewat wrote: >> >> Right. Weave is a command to the ICS editor which >> appears to be somewhat like the Dartmouth system's >> command line editor (common with many BASIC systems.) >> Weave interleaves an existing file with the working >> file based on line numbers. > >THAT's where I heard of WEAVE - definitely a BASIC command to >pull in another file and interleave (weave) lines from both. > >where did this first appear? TRS-80? At Dartmouth. In 1966, give or take a year. -- -------- Sarr Blumson sarr.blumson@alum.dartmouth.org voice: +1 734 764 0253 home: +1 734 665 9591 JSTOR, University of Michigan http://www-personal.umich.edu/~sarr/ 301 E Liberty, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2262