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Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote:
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>> From: Steve Shockley [mailto:steve.shockley@shockley.net]
>> Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2008 9:56 AM
>> To: misc
>> Subject: Re: Editing C with...
>>
>> Nick Holland wrote:
>>> but I WOULD tell any new user: learn the
>>> base system tools first.
>> More to the point, have a working knowledge of ed.  Had a royal PITA
> the
>> other day when I misspelled "softdep" in the /usr line in fstab, and
>> didn't know how to use ed.
>>
>>> Most modern OSs (with the exception of
>>> Windows, assuming you wish to lump it in with that category) include
>>> a usable editor.
>> Notepad?  edlin?
>>
> 
> 
> Windows still has edit, as well, which is kinder and gentler than edlin
> and will run without the GUI (IIRC).
> 
> 
> 

Running "edit" in a cmd shell on vista yesterday crashed my VM.

I'm going to try it in powershell now.
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