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Date:      Mon, 21 Dec 1998 14:07:38 +1100
From:      Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        gmarco@giovannelli.it, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Editors in /bin (was: Why ...)
Message-ID:  <19981221140738.21638@welearn.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <19981221090137.F24125@freebie.lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Mon, Dec 21, 1998 at 09:01:37AM %2B1030
References:  <199812200805.JAA00654@www.giovannelli.it> <19981221090137.F24125@freebie.lemis.com>

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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!

If you want a small basic (easy) ed tutorial, follow ed's link from
http://www.daemonnews.org/199810/editing.html

-- 

Regards,
        -*Sue*-


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