[H-GEN] Simple Linux editors

marco grigull mark at cyber.com.au
Mon Apr 8 19:56:13 EDT 2002


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On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 05:43:38AM +1000, Greg Black wrote:
> 
> You're talking as if I said something to the contrary.  I did
> not.  I have been talking about circumstances where ed is the
> only available choice.  It's a situation that can and does
> happen.  If you don't want to be able to deal with that
> possibility, that's fine.  It's your choice.  I have been trying
> to help the people who don't want to be left high and dry in a
> particular situation.

I have only ever come across ed once, and that was in an openbsd install
 to add some hosts to the host table.
I had access to manual pages on another machine that day.

Marco

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