From owner-freebsd-current Fri May 24 17:11:53 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA21477 for current-outgoing; Fri, 24 May 1996 17:11:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Kryten.nina.com (dyn020-gnv.51.fdt.net [205.229.51.21]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA21467 for ; Fri, 24 May 1996 17:11:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from frankd@localhost) by Kryten.nina.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id UAA05914; Fri, 24 May 1996 20:08:46 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 20:08:46 -0400 (EDT) From: Frank Seltzer X-Sender: frankd@Kryten.nina.com To: Terry Lambert cc: "Stephen P. Butler" , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: editors In-Reply-To: <199605242000.NAA01650@phaeton.artisoft.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 24 May 1996, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > Gotta get those new user up to speed on pipes and redirection > > > right off the bat! > > > > Huh! Mere child's tools. I vote we ought to give them just a disk > > sector editor. After all, any self-respecting hacker ought to be able > > to edit files by writing the disk format directly! :-) > > Luxury! > > Why, I remember installing Ultrix on a non-DEC drive using only > my bare hands and "dd"... > > > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org > --- > Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present > or previous employers. > And walked 5 miles to school, uphill both ways :-) -- Frank