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From: bdh@nospam.deus.com (William de Haan)
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 03:57:33 GMT
Organization: Deus Ex Machina, Ltd.
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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. One of the standard games you play with it is to type in your name as a
command and see what it does. The thing I always admired about TECO macros was
that they looked like so much line static...
>Hell, if I'd just have TECO for Linux ...
Now, THAT is something that I'd want to see...
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