Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 14:02:26 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> Cc: gmarco@giovannelli.it, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Editors in /bin (was: Why ...) Message-ID: <19981221140226.Q24125@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19981221140738.21638@welearn.com.au>; from Sue Blake on Mon, Dec 21, 1998 at 02:07:38PM %2B1100 References: <199812200805.JAA00654@www.giovannelli.it> <19981221090137.F24125@freebie.lemis.com> <19981221140738.21638@welearn.com.au>
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On Monday, 21 December 1998 at 14:07:38 +1100, Sue Blake wrote: > On Mon, Dec 21, 1998 at 09:01:37AM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: >> On Sunday, 20 December 1998 at 1:55:56 +0100, Gianmarco Giovannelli wrote: >>> >>> Why there is no text editor in /bin or /sbin or /stand (a simple >>> text editor, vi, ee or anything else) ? >> >> There is: ed >> >>> I have the /usr mounted async ... How can edited a file (like >>> something in /etc) if I am not able to mount the /usr ? >>> >>> The only thing I found is ed in /bin but it isn't so much fair to use... >> >> It's the traditional ``small'' editor. On my PDP-11, it is all of >> 9418 bytes long. > > Oh, so it's not the same as we use these days? When I used the PDP-11 > ed, I couldn't tell the difference, it felt just like home. There ya > go! Take a look at the sources: FreeBSD: -rw-r--r-- 1 grog lemis 6879 Dec 31 1997 buf.c -rw-r--r-- 1 grog lemis 11025 Aug 8 1997 cbc.c -rw-r--r-- 1 grog lemis 6243 Aug 8 1997 glbl.c -rw-r--r-- 1 grog lemis 8961 Aug 8 1997 io.c -rw-r--r-- 1 grog lemis 32518 Aug 8 17:07 main.c -rw-r--r-- 1 grog lemis 3835 Aug 8 1997 re.c -rw-r--r-- 1 grog lemis 6972 Aug 8 17:07 sub.c -rw-r--r-- 1 grog lemis 4455 Aug 8 1997 undo.c 2.11BSD: -r--r----- 1 root 21738 Feb 9 1987 ed.c Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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