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Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.shell Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!garlic.com!fox.almaden.ibm.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!newsfeed.acns.nwu.edu!firewall!ceco!root From: John Hobson <jhobson@ceco.ceco.com> Subject: Re: WTD: basic UNIX tutorial "learn" X-Nntp-Posting-Host: disaster Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <DrrD0J.Fvp@ceco.ceco.com> Sender: root@ceco.ceco.com (Operator) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Commonwealth Edison References: <4ni43o$9mv@nntp1.best.com> <4nihg1$icj@olympus.nwnet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 13:48:18 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4c) X-Url: news:4nihg1$icj@olympus.nwnet.net Lines: 20 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.misc:22915 comp.unix.questions:82026 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3649 comp.unix.shell:33014 aad@nwnet.net (Anthony D'Atri) wrote: >>taught fun things like "ed", "ex", and "vi". > >That's exactly why few if any vendors still ship it. It's been obsolete for >over ten years. As I am sure that other people will say, ed, ex, and vi are far from obsolete. If I am called upon to work on a random Unix system and I must edit a file, I can expect to find vi, or at least ed. I actually prefer emacs, but I cannot always have it available to me on a given system. If you are in single user mode because the disk controller that handles the /usr file system has crashed (it's happened to me), you will be very glad to have vi available to recreate files. -- John Hobson | The Mahatma Gandhi was once asked, "Mr Unix Support Group | Gandhi, what do you think of Western Commonwealth Edison, Chicago, IL | Civilization?" He replied, "I think jhobson@ceco.ceco.com | that it would be an excellent idea."