jik@athena.mit.edu (01/03/90)
In article <920004@hpavla.HP.COM>, rowland@hpavla.HP.COM (Fred Rowland) writes: > There's a complete writeup of 'style' and its companion programs 'diction' > and 'explain' in an article > > Writing Tools - The STYLE and DICTION Programs > > L. L. Cherry and W. Vesterman > > dated November 22, 1980. Unfortunately, my copy doesn't include the name > of the journal, but I'd say there's a good chance that it was Communications > of the ACM. Good luck! You probably don't have to dig through any journals to find the article. The BSD and Ultrix source tapes both have it on-line in the /usr/doc directory. On BSD systems, it's in /usr/doc/usd/32.diction, and on Ultrix systems (at least according to the Ultrix3.0 sources), it's in /usr/doc/diction. The document is the same on both systems, and you should be able to format and print it by cd'ing into the appropriate directory and typing "tbl rm0 rm1 rm2 | troff -ms"