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Wasn't edlin based on the Unix ed?

Nope. It's very similar to the CP/M `ed'. (I hesitate to say "identical" since I haven't touched a CP/M system since 1984..), but the first time I used edlin a couple years ago to edit an autoexec.bat file, I had CP/M flashbacks... Edlin is very different from the Unix `ed' and *its* ancestors (which are a line of several line-oriented editors which started life on CTSS, grew up on Multics, and were cut back down to size on Unix, only to sprout up again into ex and vi..) - Bill -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.1 iQCVAwUBLu8Q47T+rHlVUGpxAQEm1AQAi61eq6ifrpEQDVoE8DLkU2N7leevmzzO tHIMYZBPEwWNvN1RVT/F2D0clVBnOTcq3Es5R7Ps8MlJPb3vO18DRFrsEn/RgEJS ZMwTeySMGnpJTd3pwRAESJQ8AntuyLd9eTCOndfsmA+pVOcC/Ashg/yakaXDNfSu gtgP0tMBwys= =k9iS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Johnathan Corgan writes:

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Is that the same Microsoft that brought us Edlin???

Wasn't edlin based on the Unix ed?

No. Or at least, if it was, the edlin implementor had some serious misunderstandings. | GOOD TIME FOR MOVIE - GOING ||| Mike McNally <m5@tivoli.com> | | TAKE TWA TO CAIRO. ||| Tivoli Systems, Austin, TX: | | (actual fortune cookie) ||| "Like A Little Bit of Semi-Heaven" |