[TUHS] What is this 1972 C/NB program?

[Lars Brinkhoff via TUHS]

Will Senn wrote:
> int nread 1;

In old (really old) C, that's how you initialize a variable.  I'm
particularly aware of this, since Alan Snyder brought this syntax from
Bell Labs back to MIT around 1974, and that's how his C compiler for ITS
works.