Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/06/01/14:05:53
This is to announce that a DJGPP port of GNU Ed v0.2 has been uploaded to
SimTel.NET mirrors:
ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/ed-02b.zip (binaries)
ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/ed-02s.zip (sources)
Ed is a (relatively) simple line editor. Why would you care for a line
editor these days, you ask? Well, there are at least two reasons that I
can think of:
1) GNU `patch' calls `ed' for one of the possible diff formats
(admittedly, these are seldom used).
2) People who are interested in how operating systems in general
and Unix in particular have developed, might take a look at how
sophisticated might a simple line editor be (just for fun, compare it
with LINEDIT from DOS). `ed' was the original interactive editor
released with the first versions of Unix (AFAIK); the GNU version is of
course a complete rewrite, but the functionality on the outside is almost
unchanged.
(Actually, I was unsure myself whether to upload this port, but the
hesitation was over when I saw a message from somebody who was looking
for a DOS port of `ed', don't ask me why.)
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