From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: lyndon@orthanc.ca (Lyndon Nerenberg) Date: Mon, 14 May 2018 18:32:12 -0700 Subject: [TUHS] Who used *ROFF? In-Reply-To: References: <20180512110127.0B81418C08E@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> Message-ID: <4521D159-F19A-479C-9D5A-B1FFDAE658C4@orthanc.ca> > On May 14, 2018, at 6:21 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote: > > I boss I used to work for insisted that we all learn "ed", because one day it might be the only editor available to you; well, one day he was right, when /usr on a client's box got creamed after a head crash... What I always find odd is the bunch moaning about ed(1) being obsolete, obtuse, and hard to learn, tend to have a healthy stock of sed(1) scripts they ran hourly if not more often.