libPW.a - Again

[DoN Nichols]

	Watching all the complaints about the programmer's workbench,
and how it was useless, and to be avoided at all costs, prodded my
curiosity into action, and I checked.  Sure enough, there in /lib was
libPW.a.  Yes, alloca was there.  So was a lot of other stuff.  However,
there was no documentation in or with the system in question.  Also,
there was none in any of the books which I examined from my collection.
The system in question wasn't the one from which I am posting, but an
antique port of V7 by UniSoft.

	Realizing that the use of this library should be avoided in all
programs which pretend to be portable, these routines may still be of
use locally.

	WHERE can I find some documentation on what the routines were
intended to do, and what the calling conventions are?  (Warnings about
known bugs would be helpful too.)

	Please main responses directly to me:

		nvt9001 at belvior-emh3.army.mil

	If anyone else is as crazy as I, and also wants this info, I'll
try to forward a summary of responses. (If the requests exceed four, or
I can't make the local mailer accept enough of the addresses, I'll post
a summary to this newsgroup.)

	Thanks in advance
		Donald Nichols (DoN.)

Disclaimer: My employer probably doesn't want to admit that *I* exist,
let alone being willing to let me speak for it's interests.