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From: MENRIB@sun.leeds.ac.uk (R.I. Bagnall)
Subject: Re: WTD: basic UNIX tutorial "learn"
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Date: Sat, 18 May 1996 10:42:28 +0100 (BST)
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In article <4nihg1$icj@olympus.nwnet.net>,
aad@nwnet.net (Anthony D'Atri) wrote:
>>taught fun things like "ed", "ex", and "vi".
>
>That's exactly why few if any vendors still ship it. It's been obsolete
for
>over ten years.
Just because there are more editors to choose from these days doesn't mean
that people don't use ed, ex and vi anymore.
In fear of repeating an editors argument - if the system goes down in a bad
way, it's not likely to have anything except those basic programs to edit
with when it comes back up - no X, no emacs just dependable ex and co.
Rob.