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From: bdh@nospam.deus.com (William de Haan)
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: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 02:37:17 GMT
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On 9 Mar 1997 18:20:28 GMT, Ralf Baechle wrote:

>I admit I haven't used TECO yet - but installed as /usr/bin/vi other
>people do that for me :-

They installed TECO in place of VI? Eugh.

>More seriously - in the child days of Linux/68k I've been editing files
>with sed, the GNU textutils and lots of tempfiles - until I had found
>and fixed a bug in Elvis. TECO can't be worse. It even took people here

Oh. Yes. It. Can.


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