> Precisely. There is *no* benefit from knowing edlin.
*snort* It's very useful for batch programming, you know... You can use it
to carry out random operations on a text file in batch mode, like DEBUG, so
for instance can create self-modifying batch files or batch files that can
do recursive directory stuff by using DIR etc. It's also useful to know if
you're faced with a plain DOS 3.1 system with no floppy drive and no other
editor on the HDD (yes, I've seen that, had to work with the damn things
(diskless network clients with a default ROM drive image) too).
EDLIN is to DOS what vi, awk, sed etc. are to Unices, but with less style.
Regards,
Ben A L Jemmett.
(http://web.ukonline.co.uk/ben.jemmett/, http://www.deltasoft.com/)
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