Date: 10 Sep 1998 22:41:42 +0200 From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Co=EFdan?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ed Message-ID: <xzp4suf4s55.fsf@hel.ifi.uio.no> In-Reply-To: Wes Peters's message of "Thu, 10 Sep 1998 07:07:35 -0600" References: <9698.905291210@time.cdrom.com> <35F7CF17.E0C82BCA@softweyr.com>
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Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> writes: > Yeah, me too. Those who think ed is bad should try, for instance, > that horrid editor that came with CP/M, or "sos" on TOPS-10. Or, Son Of Stopgap, an editor that was written to replace an editor that was written to replace an editor while waiting for the next (better) editor. Or something like that. > as an example of something other FreeBSD'ers MAY have seen, edlin. > Remember that barfluous little botch? Actually, most of my acquaintances agree that edlin and debug are Microsoft's two best products ever. You wouldn't imagine how much fun one can have with debug... My favorite DOS horror story is about the time I rebuilt my primary FAT using debug as a hex editor :) DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - dag-erli@ifi.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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