Does anyone know if TECO was ever ported to any variant of Unix? And, if
so, where I might get a copy?
For those who may not know of TECO, it is the Text Editor and COrrector. It
was originally written at MIT in the early 60s for the PDP-1 (I believe).
It was widely used on the PDP-11s and was even ported to VMS, though I don't
know if many people other than Andy Goldstein used it on that platform. :)
Today I came across a situation where TECO was the only editor I could find
which would edit a file without corrupting it.
I created a .EPS (Postscript) file on a Windoze system using PaintShop Pro.
In order to use the .EPS file with VMS Document there is some junk at the
beginning and end of the file which has to be removed. First I tried Emacs
on Windows. It appeared to edit the file successfully, but I suspect it did
something to the record structure because I wasn't able to transfer the file
to a VMS system using Pathworks.
I was able to copy the unedited .EPS file, so I attempted to edit it on the
VMS side. TPU, LSE, and EDT all failed because the record length exceeded
the buffer size. I don't have Emacs running on VMS yet, so I thought I was
out of options.
As a last ditch attempt, I was looking in the EDIT help file for an option
to increase the buffer size when I saw....
/TECO
Somehow, I managed to find the pocket card I haven't used in 20 years -- the
last time I used TECO for anything other than cleaning up carriage control.
Even more amazing is that I managed to successfully edit the file and leave
it in a state that Document would process.
Ah! Memories of the good old days -- and a text editor that makes even
Emacs commands seem intelligible:
S%!PS-Adobe$0,.-10K0TT$$
N%%Trailer$L.,ZKPEF$^C$$
Jerry
P.S. If anyone in ZK sees Andy around, please thank him for keeping TECO
alive.
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