From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dario@darioniedermann.it (Dario Niedermann) Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2017 02:17:40 +0100 Subject: [TUHS] basic tools / Universal Unix In-Reply-To: <8FE0F4AC-DDAE-482B-8148-CB9438F57549@tfeb.org> References: <20171030141645.6F81C18C0E7@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> <8FE0F4AC-DDAE-482B-8148-CB9438F57549@tfeb.org> Message-ID: <20171116011740.GD16236@darioniedermann.it> Il 01/11/2017 alle 14:25, Tim Bradshaw ha scritto: > Of course nowadays you can't rely on the thing called 'ed' being > 'ed': I know someone who lives in ed but can't run it on some machines > because it relies on something in /var somewhere being writable, which > it isn't. I've always thought that the *whole point* of ed was that > it did not rely on vast tracts of the system actually being there, > still less beng functional. This person now has to edit things with > cat (which, in some future release, will probably start assuming that > there's a configured ipv6 interface or something, because why would > that ever not be true?). I recommend said person install `ed' from the Heirloom project: it's a traditional version (with added support for UTF-8). It will even work on modern GNU/Linux (I know for sure because it's the one I use). http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/ -- Dario Niedermann. Also on the Internet at: gopher://darioniedermann.it/ <> https://www.darioniedermann.it/