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From: lepslog@j51.com (Louis Epstein)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Anyone know about "kedit" and freebsd?
Date: 21 Nov 1995 01:56:16 GMT
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The Man in Black (samz@seamud.org) wrote:
: I wanted a way to "hide" online as system administrator. So that when 
: someone does a WHO or a W or a finger it will show me as not being online 
: when I really am. I asked some friends about this, and a friend of mine 
: that works on a Sun System with SunOS give me this file called "kedit.c". 
: It works find and dandy on his system. When i compiled it on mine, the 
: first thing was that the file system is different on Sun then FreeBSD, so 
: i edited the C file and compiled it. And when I finally did it didnt 
: work. So does anyone know about this utility? Anyway it can be ported to 
: Freebsd? Or can someone point me to a freebsd utility that will do what I 
: want. Thank you.

Is this a version of the commercial program KEDIT from Mansfield Software??
It doesn't make sense,since that program is a text editor,but I wonder why
the same name would be used...