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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!news.hawaii.edu!ames!olivea!uunet!uunet.ca!cognos!dealwisb From: dealwisb@cognos.com (Brian de Alwis) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Port of ed/edit Keywords: editors Message-ID: <1992Jul31.001058.16926@cognos.com> Date: 31 Jul 92 00:10:58 GMT References: <2413@nic.cerf.net> Organization: Cognos Incorporated, Ottawa CANADA Lines: 16 In article <2413@nic.cerf.net> greggb@nic.cerf.net (Gregg Brekke) writes: >Has anyone ported ed (preferred) or edit for 386bsd. I use it in a lot >of scripts and don't feel like doing all the substitutions by hand. Try this: -----8<-----CUT-HERE-----8<----- # ed - invoke ex, as it's backward-compatible-enough-to-pass-for-ed ex $* -----8<-----CUT-HERE-----8<----- It's ugly, but it works. -- +++BdA Brian de Alwis. Brain on loan to Cognos Inc, Ottawa, Ontario. dealwisb@cognos.com, or bsdealwi@napier.{waterloo.edu,uwaterloo.ca} "Nine out of ten men who tried camels said they preferred women"