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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!mr.net!newsfeeds.sol.net!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!howland.erols.net!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!news2.acs.oakland.edu!cwis-20.wayne.edu!usenet From: Michael Edelman <mje@pass.wayne.edu> 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: Wed, 05 Mar 1997 15:57:39 -0500 Organization: Wayne State University Lines: 19 Message-ID: <331DDE43.5C79@pass.wayne.edu> References: <5d3sr2$44n@nntp1.best.com> <5dbapu$t1f$1@nntp2.ba.best.com> <x7n2ti4s7i.fsf@dumbcat.codewright.com> <5dc7qq$hed@phoenix.sysbe.sysgo.de> <5ddcvf$4dh@sun20.ccd.bnl.gov> <330a1d23.2419719@172.15.0.208> <5ef5c8$rgs@arktur.rz.uni-ulm.de> <330B2333.38B6@to.me.please> <330ea403.78621875@mambo> <330c6276.13111256@news.direct.ca> <5ehssl$mtl@milo.mcs.anl.gov> <5f851m$ea$2@alles.intern.julia.de> <331deee1.206246677@news.interlog.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: bob.pass.wayne.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4m) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:163036 comp.os.linux.networking:71025 comp.os.linux.setup:101209 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:6227 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2731 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy:55909 comp.os.os2.advocacy:272222 William de Haan wrote: > > On 1 Mar 1997 02:41:58 GMT, ralf@Julia.DE (Ralf Baechle) wrote: > > >You guys all have never heared of TECO. TECO is infamous for accepting more > >or less everything as a valid command. Giving TECO to a unknowing user is > >like giving poisened razor blades to a kid for playing with. > > Ah, TECO. No WSYIWYG nonsense for TECO; it's the original YAFIYGI (you asked for > it, you got it) editor - "cruel, cryptic, unforgiving, and dangerous", as I > recall. I thought it was "YGWYD"- You Get What You Deserve. Of course, to run TECO you need those special red and blue buttons. And if your machine has the special *gold* button... Suddenly I feel very old. --mike ;-)