[TUHS] README

[Larry McVoy via TUHS]

I wasn't exposed to the Unix sources early but I did READMEs in stuff that I
open sourced so someone must have showed me that.  Or it's just an obvious 
thing to do.  I did upper case README so it listed first in ls.

On Mon, Dec 22, 2025 at 07:19:10PM -0500, Clem Cole via TUHS wrote:
> I suspect it was a good idea that was independently created in multiple
> places. I remember seeing them in PDP-6/10 arpanet would which I was
> introduced before discovering Unix.
> 
> Sent from a handheld expect more typos than usual
> 
> 
> On Mon, Dec 22, 2025 at 6:07???PM Douglas McIlroy via TUHS <tuhs at tuhs.org>
> wrote:
> 
> > READMEs are everywhere now, but I am not aware of any before Dennis
> > began to put them in Unix source directories. Does anyone know whether
> > he invented the idea or borrowed it?
> >
> > Doug
> >

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