RE: Hey old people

[Jeff Rosowski <rosowskij () ie ymp gov>]

> > And let me tell you, you don't want to use edlin as an editor, ...
>
> Actually, edlin had (and still does as far as I know, but you're right,
> you don't want to use it if you can avoid it...) one brilliant
> redeeming feature -- you could script it via command redirection.  I
> used that once, ages ago in some cunning (probably self-modifying, but
> can't be sure now) batch file...

I had to regularly use ed on the sperry 1190 we ran when I was in the air 
force..  ahh the days of being a tape monkey.
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