Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <robin1.listas@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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The Friday 2005-11-11 at 18:24 +0100, Jos van Kan wrote:

> Ed was designed with a teletype in mind (the pre-crt stage of computing) edlin
> was designed without anything in mind.  Editing with edlin was editing with
> both hands tied behind your back and you had to type with your nose.

Edlin was a line editor, quite crude, but it "saved my life" once: it is 
possible to edit a file in a headless PC, with keyboard and printer only. 
Other operationg systems also had an editor equivalent (more or less) to 
edlin, designed to work with dumb terminals or teleprinters.

The problem was not that dos included edlin, but that it only included 
edlin as an editor.

- -- 
Cheers,
       Carlos Robinson
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