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Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,alt.folklore.computers Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!metro!metro!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!nsw.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!iafrica.com!pipex-sa.net!bowl.news.pipex.net!pipex!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!howland.erols.net!EU.net!usenet2.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!psinntp!psinntp!ncrgw2.ncr.com!ncrhub6!daynews!ranger!news From: Mike Czaplinski <mike.czaplinski@washingtondc.ncr.com> Subject: Re: On the Naming of UNIX Things X-Nntp-Posting-Host: 192.127.151.22 Message-ID: <E0xG9I.Koo@ranger.daytonoh.ncr.com> Sender: news@ranger.daytonoh.ncr.com (News Administrative Login) Organization: NCR Corporation References: <55vhpf$q3o@mail1.wg.waii.com> <328386bc.112278367@news.ov.com> <560d4o$c68@panix2.panix.com> <328631EA.346F@jpmorgan.com> <ralphp-1011961555120001@du-18.gcstation.net> <56a070$cqc@cnn.Princeton.EDU> <328B5B7D.7260@ccm.hf.intel.com> Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 19:46:30 GMT Lines: 22 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.misc:26532 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1560 alt.folklore.computers:124868 Perry Hutchison <perry_hutchison@ccm.hf.intel.com> wrote: > > Tim Hollebeek wrote: > > Bah. Doesn't anyone know 'ex' (the non-visual version of vi) any more? > > and humbug. Even the curmudgeons seem to have forgotten ed(1), the > precursor of ex. ed was the only editor supplied with 6th Edition. Speaking as a 'young whipper snapper' who's only been working with Unix for a little over two years, ed(1) is a regular part of my arsenal, since my job is to resurrect sick machines, and often it's the only text editor I have available. I don't ENJOY using it, but I'm somewhere between functionally illiterate and fluent in it. > Not speaking for Intel. Tell you what, I'll speak for Intel, and you speak for NCR.... Mike "NAW!!!" Czaplinski mike.czaplinski@washingtondc.ncr.com