[TUHS] Archeology: AberMUD, BCPL, ec.

[Nemo]

On 31/01/2019, Doug McIlroy <doug at cs.dartmouth.edu> wrote:
> I OCR'd a sizable manuscript written on a pretty shabby portable
> typewriter.
>
> I scanned each page twice, making sure to move the paper between scans.
> Then I ran both diff (by words, not lines) and spell to smoke out trouble.
> The word list for a program listing is quite short and easy to generate.
> (Print a list of all the apparent words and visually eliminate the
> nonsense.)
> And a spell check is an easy pipeline of standard utilities.
>
> doug

Very nice!  (I shall remember this technique.)

N.