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From: Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] text editor
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Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 10:06:07 -0600
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On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Boyd Roberts wrote:

> I don't think it printed 'huh?'.  I used it too but can't remember
> the differences either.  I have some dim memory of it printing terse
> error messages rather than '?'.

ca. 1980, HP had a "friendly" port of an ed-like tool  that printed
something like
"bad command, armadillo-brain"
instead of
?

It was fun at first but got old for people.

ron