On Sat, 13 Mar 2010 20:23:47 +0000, Tony Firshman wrote
> <copying exercise for Winchester Research Unit>
> Another great QDOS feature I discovered which saved loads of 
> time.  I used:
> 
> 5 CLS
> 10 FORMAT ram1_mdv1_
> 15 WSTAT ram1_
> 30 WCOPY ram1_ to flp2_f05_2_
> 35 STAT flp2_
> 40 ed 30
> 
> I did the ED 30 so I could edit for the next mdv.
> Now what I didn't expect was that after down arrow to save 
> the line, when I pressed ESC there was another implicit RUN!
> 
> OK 'RUN<enter>' isn't a load of typing by itself, but when 
> one has maybe 350 microdrives it IS, especially as sometimes 
> one has to run dozens of times to eventually read some files.
> 

Excellent! It really works. But is it by design or by chance?

Arnould
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