[H-GEN] Simple Linux editors


Mon Apr 8 19:37:29 EDT 2002


David,

david> I've been involved in quite a few large networks before,
david> both HA and just large in size, and am yet to see a valid
david> reason as to why ed just had to be used. In fact, I'm yet
david> to hear of one from members of SAGE-AU.

I have been in a few situations where ed(1) was the best editor
available.  An example that comes to mind is a vendor installed
Compaq Tru64 Unix box I was brought in to fix.

Disclaimer: Although I am President of the Queensland Chapter
of The System Administrators Guild of Australia, this is not an
official opinion of The Guild.

Yours sincerely,

-- Mark John Suter  | I know that you  believe  you understand
suter at humbug.org.au | what you think I said, but I am not sure
gpg key id F2FEBB36 | you realise that what you  heard  is not
mobile 0411 262 316 | what I meant.        Robert J. McCloskey



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