From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (qmail 1827 invoked from network); 17 Dec 1998 20:07:04 -0000 Received: from mail.redhat.com (199.183.24.239) by lists.redhat.com with SMTP; 17 Dec 1998 20:07:04 -0000 Received: from europe.std.com (europe.std.com [199.172.62.20]) by mail.redhat.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA17454 for ; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 14:57:03 -0500 Received: from world.std.com by europe.std.com (8.7.6/BZS-8-1.0) id OAA17539; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 14:56:55 -0500 (EST) Received: by world.std.com (TheWorld/Spike-2.0) id AA18600; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 14:56:52 -0500 Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 14:56:52 -0500 From: lark@world.std.com (Lar Kaufman) Message-Id: <199812171956.AA18600@world.std.com> To: Charles Hallenbeck <2ndsight@taconic.net>, blinux-list@redhat.com Subject: Re: where are docs for "ex" Cc: ;;@world.std.com, shown:@redhat.com@world.std.com, not@world.std.com, list@world.std.com, recipient@world.std.com, Blind Linux Discussions , Blind Linux Discussions , Lar Kaufman List-Id: True, "ed" is the original unix editor, and has some obscure advantages in that its command format is used by unix for file parsing. For example, when you run "diff" on two files, the output is an ed script that would convert the first one to the second. But nobody does that stuff anymore. The "ex" editor is an "extended ed" enriched with features that everyone wanted in the Berkeley Standard Distribution. The ex and vi editors were, if I recall correctly, both written by Bill Joy, who later founded Sun. They were developed to meet students' needs, as opposed to the original ed, which was written by um, Dennis Ritchie? at Bell Labs. A programmer's tool. -lar "This ain't no party, this ain't no disco, this ain't no fooling around. No time for dancing or lovey-dovey, I ain't got time for that now. I sent a message through the receiver, hope to get an answer someday. Why stay in college? Why go to night school? Thought I'd be different this time." -D. Byrne