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From: Neil McGovern <sheflug [at] xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 11:38:03 +0100
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On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 12:27:17PM +0100, Chris J wrote:
> > > If you're feeling brave and want to see what text editors were like before 
> > > they were visual, type 'ex'.
> > > 
> > 
> > Or even better, ed :)
> > 
> 
> Ahh... 'ed'. I remember having to change the partition table on a DEC OSF/1 [1]
> box with ed as nothing else was available in single-user mode... :-)
> 

For ultimate evilness, set ed as someone's shell.

Neil
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