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From: ralsina@ultra7.unl.edu.ar (Roberto Alsina)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject: Re: Betting on Unix
Date: 5 Mar 1997 13:44:33 GMT
Organization: Universidad Nacional de San Luis - Argentina
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In article <331deee1.206246677@news.interlog.com>, William de Haan wrote:
>On 1 Mar 1997 02:41:58 GMT, ralf@Julia.DE (Ralf Baechle) wrote:
>
>>You guys all have never heared of TECO. TECO is infamous for accepting more
>>or less everything as a valid command. Giving TECO to a unknowing user is
>>like giving poisened razor blades to a kid for playing with.
>
>Ah, TECO. No WSYIWYG nonsense for TECO; it's the original YAFIYGI (you asked for
>it, you got it) editor - "cruel, cryptic, unforgiving, and dangerous", as I
>recall. One of the standard games you play with it is to type in your name as a
>command and see what it does. The thing I always admired about TECO macros was
>that they looked like so much line static...
Dangers of the time: Use TECO over a phone line whitout error correction,
with noise *on the input*. Suddenly your document is renamed to $#@!$hhty5$
and saved in the /jy$^/kuty$#@ directory (which TECO had just created :-)
>
>>Hell, if I'd just have TECO for Linux ...
>
>Now, THAT is something that I'd want to see...
Go to sunsite! There is one.
>________________________________________________________________________
>William de Haan bdh@deus.com 905-281-3523 Voice 905-281-3524 Fax
>Deus Ex Machina Ltd., 3650 Kaneff Crescent, Mississauga, Ontario L5A 4A1
> No hablo espanol. Non parlo Italiano. eG'K Hy's Klingon.
>
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