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From: menrib@mensgi5..leeds.ac.uk (R I Bagnall)
Subject: Re: Betting on Unix
Message-ID: <1997Mar11.090707.15842@leeds.ac.uk>
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Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 09:07:07 +0000 (GMT)
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>>No, the best editor is the one that is Guaranteed to be there on
>>any system you are likely to have to work on.
>>
>
>
> Ummm... why? Why not just one that you know well and that lives on a
> laptop? Or that lives on a machine accessible to you from your laptop for
> that matter, or that is accessible from the machines on which you will work?
Or, perhaps more importantly, the one that comes on the boot disk...?
Rob.