Ouch!  My head hurts!  ;)  (dd and sh - reminds me of the time I was planning
on writing a complier in minix's sh, because my evaluation minix floppy
didn't have cc.  ;)

Yes, it would work - but if you want to emulate a more so-fist-ee-kate-ed
environment, you could always port edlin from FreeDOS (GPL) to 3270 ... ;)

I'm only suggesting it, so wait till you get it up and running before tarring
and feathering me. ;)

Wesley Parish

On Wed, 08 Jun 2005 01:59, Adam Thornton wrote:
> On Jun 7, 2005, at 8:54 AM, John Campbell wrote:
> > Adam Thornton: >>>>>>>>>>>
> > ned is now freely available, and works wonderfully.
> >
> > Line mode?  There's always ed.
> >
> > I'm not man enough to use ed, myself, so instead I use "sed", "cat",
> > and "echo".
> > <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
> >
> > And I thought _I_ was a luddite.  Never forget "dd".
>
> I also use head and tail.  Forgot about those.  Very useful though.
>
> But I remember a few years ago, the late lamented assurdo.com had a
> plan to reimplement a Unix environment in nothing but sh and dd.
>
> Same guy who was doing Object-Oriented INTERCAL.
>
> Adam
>
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