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Date:      Sun, 9 Dec 2001 04:12:12 +0100
From:      "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com>
To:        "Kent Stewart" <kstewart@owt.com>
Cc:        "P. U. (Uli) Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: telnet to a Win2k-pro machine
Message-ID:  <04f201c1805f$4c43ba40$0a00000a@atkielski.com>
References:  <20011208223542.U29324-100000@big> <04cb01c1804f$2673f5b0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <3C12BCBB.80700@owt.com> <04e401c18050$314ea060$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <3C12BEEC.6010402@owt.com> <04eb01c18054$217e7b70$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <3C12CB0E.2050203@owt.com>

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Kent writes:

> It is too easy to use one of the system
> running the proper OS for the task than
> it is to make task run on the wrong OS.

Hmm ... is making things easy a bad thing?

> Cray thought that just using vi was abusing
> their system.

What did they suggest in its place?

> There are only about 6 commands that you
> need to know to get started.

Yeah, and they all look like Esc-Ctrl-Q+Y+z+!+*+"+"+:+5.

> Notepad won't do regular expressions.

I have yet to come across a need for regular expressions in the editing I
do.

> Doing a proper cross line cut and paste
> is hard from vi.

I haven't even figured out how to delete characters yet.  And not having the
screen instantly updated seems like a pointless burden to bear, now that
teletypes are no longer common.




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