Annotation of 43BSD/usr.lib/learn/morefiles/L4.1f, revision 1.1

1.1     ! root        1: #print
        !             2: Another useful command is "tail", which will print the last
        !             3: 10 lines of a file.  This is handy when you want to see how 
        !             4: far something got before it stopped, or what the last thing
        !             5: in a file is.  To use "tail", all you need to say is
        !             6:   tail file
        !             7: What is the first word on the next to last line of the file
        !             8: called "Ref" in this directory.
        !             9: Type "answer WORD", where WORD is the word you found.
        !            10: #create Ref
        !            11:    Now Abraham Lincoln was master of the White House.  But he was
        !            12: President of only part of the United States.  For the Southern
        !            13: States has taken down the Star-Spangled Banner and raised the flag
        !            14: of the Confederacy in its stead.  Sad and silent, Lincoln gazed
        !            15: through his spyglass at the Confederate flag that fluttered in the
        !            16: wind on the other side of the Potomac River in Virginia.  He pondered
        !            17: how to get the Southern States back into the Union.  He needed
        !            18: quiet to think what to do.  But from morning till night the White
        !            19: House was crowded with people seeking his help.
        !            20:    About a hundred and fifty years after the pilgrims settled in
        !            21: this country, a young hunter picked up his gun.  He tossed it onto
        !            22: his shoulder and followed a buffalo trail across the mountains into
        !            23: what is now Kentucky.
        !            24:    His name was Daniel Boone.
        !            25:    He found wild country.  There were no settlers, no roads.  Indians
        !            26: hunted in the woods for food.  The country was beautiful and dangerous.
        !            27: But here was rich, free land -- miles and miles of it.
        !            28:    Many settlers, besides the Pilgrims, had come to the shores of
        !            29: America.  But they had stayed on the safe land between the sea and
        !            30: the mountains.
        !            31:    Columbus discovered America in 1492.  Later, other explorers
        !            32: visited the new land.  They told people in Europe of the forests,
        !            33: furs, and fish they found.  Many Europeans decided to settle in
        !            34: this wonderful land.  But some of the first settlers starved to
        !            35: death during the hard winters.  Others lived to build settlements
        !            36: or colonies for their mother countries.  Colonial America was
        !            37: beginning.  In 1607, three ships brought men from England to what
        !            38: is now Jamestown, Virginia.  They were looking for gold.
        !            39:    The leader, Captain John Smith, taught the men to build houses
        !            40: of stakes and branches.  They plastered the walls of the houses with
        !            41: mud.
        !            42: #copyin
        !            43: #user
        !            44: #uncopyin
        !            45: #match of
        !            46: #log
        !            47: #next
        !            48: 4.1g 10

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