Subject: Re: Origin date of Wallman's COMPOSE
From: Tom Van Vleck 
Date: 01/11/2011 15:57
To: Kristaps Dzonsons 

> > Capps, interestingly, ported Saltzer's RUNOFF as the compose utility
> > for Multics, 1974, later taken on by Ed Wallmann.

Hi Kristaps, One correction.. Dennis Capp's version of RUNOFF was
written in PL/I but was not called "compose", it was called "runoff".
MTB-102, 1974-07-26, New runoff Command Written in PL/I, Dennis Capps
This MTB may be available in the MHP scans.  You could also write to
Dennis.

regards, tom