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Aucbvax.5240 fa.info-vax utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!info-vax Wed Nov 18 19:34:36 1981 Re: learning to unix >From mike@RAND-UNIX Wed Nov 18 19:27:19 1981 Your message was SO WEIRD and I mean SO WEIRD that I have to reply to you and the list.

When I learned UNIX there was a paper with the manual, at the beginning of the manual called "UNIX Timesharing", which was a UNIX tutorial. I read the tutorial and then I read the C tutorial and then I skimmed sections II and III (system calls and user subroutines) and --presto-- I was a hacker on my way to being a wizard.

Michael

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