Remember that even paranoids have real enemies. If you're forced to run in an environment with only minimal tools, it helps if you either know how to use them or at least know that they are there and where the documentation is. Would I ever use ed by choice? No. Would I sneer at someone who mastered ed because of paranoia? No way.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Paul Gilmartin [[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2022 12:14 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Rocket Vim fileencoding (was: ... ASCII ...) On Thu, 10 Feb 2022 15:35:38 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: >Indeed, vim is common, but it is vi that is ubiquitous. I've used gvim, but >never vi; however, but consider it important to know about vi because it is >likely to be available on any *ix system. > A venerable expert counseled me, "Be sure to master 'ed'. You may need it in crash recovery if vi is unavailable." I ignored him. He also believes startup should work from /bin in case /usr/bin can't be mounted. Kinda like CMS EDIT or TSO EDIT. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
