Even simpler than a dos port of the Unix sed, is a dos port of the unix line editor ex or ed. Interestingly the developments were similar: In dos edlin was replaced by the screen editor, edit. In Unix, the line editor ed and ex were replaced by the screen editor vi, which still retained ed and ex ``underneath'' vi for those who wanted to do line editing. The older version of the vi clone elvis, among other places includes a dos port of ex, and ex, has a decent scripting capability, including the powerful Unix like search and replace command. the powerful Unix like search and replace command. To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
