From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Sep 10 13:42:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA21092 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 13:42:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA21060 for ; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 13:42:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dag-erli@ifi.uio.no) Received: from hel.ifi.uio.no (2602@hel.ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.91]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.8/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with ESMTP id WAA01763; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 22:41:43 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from dag-erli@localhost) by hel.ifi.uio.no ; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 22:41:43 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Wes Peters Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ed References: <9698.905291210@time.cdrom.com> <35F7CF17.E0C82BCA@softweyr.com> Organization: University of Oslo, Department of Informatics X-url: http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~dag-erli/ X-other-addresses: 'finger dag-erli@ifi.uio.no' for a list X-disclaimer-1: The views expressed in this article are mine alone, and do X-disclaimer-2: not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or X-disclaimer-3: company with which I am or have been affiliated. X-Stop-Spam: http://www.cauce.org/ From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Co=EFdan?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) Date: 10 Sep 1998 22:41:42 +0200 In-Reply-To: Wes Peters's message of "Thu, 10 Sep 1998 07:07:35 -0600" Message-ID: Lines: 19 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id NAA21069 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Wes Peters 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