From: Win Treese <treese@acm.org>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] v7 uucp debugging help requested
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2020 01:05:17 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <A74C1AE2-9A7A-418A-AC14-1249CD91ACDB@acm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC20D2NDO7FUrO5Xk6FxPLSMxUfH3XQHQQnici-X5Z9oxyF68w@mail.gmail.com>
> On Jul 6, 2020, at 4:48 PM, Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> I never thought of that; I've always tried what works in ed, namely:
>>
>> s/foobar/foo\
>> bar
> need a closing / for ed, but ex/vi accepts the naked version.
In the mid 1980s, when I was working at MIT’s Project Athena,
one day Jerry Saltzer (MIT CS professor, known for work on CTSS
and Multics, among other things, and Technical Director for Athena)
called me into his office.
He was trying to edit a file with ed on his IBM PC/RT workstation,
which was running IBM’s variant of 4.2BSD on it, and he wanted
to know why his search
/foo
wasn’t working.
I typed /foo/, and everything was fine.
He looked at it and muttered, “Oh, you have to end it with a slash?
When I wrote this for CTSS, you didn’t need to do that.”
- Win
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-10 5:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-03 20:52 Adam Thornton
2020-07-03 21:26 ` Clem Cole
2020-07-03 22:38 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2020-07-04 0:28 ` Clem Cole
2020-07-04 0:31 ` Clem Cole
2020-07-04 19:33 ` Adam Thornton
2020-07-04 20:02 ` Clem Cole
2020-07-04 21:58 ` Adam Thornton
2020-07-05 5:42 ` Adam Thornton
2020-07-03 22:50 ` John Cowan
2020-07-04 16:33 ` Adam Thornton
2020-07-04 18:34 ` John Cowan
2020-07-04 18:44 ` Jon Forrest
2020-07-04 19:34 ` Adam Thornton
2020-07-06 4:12 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-07-06 4:18 ` Warner Losh
2020-07-06 6:51 ` arnold
2020-07-06 7:11 ` Michael Usher via TUHS
2020-07-06 13:57 ` Clem Cole
2020-07-06 18:51 ` John Cowan
2020-07-06 19:19 ` arnold
2020-07-06 19:36 ` John Cowan
2020-07-06 19:58 ` John Cowan
2020-07-06 20:48 ` Clem Cole
2020-07-07 6:21 ` arnold
2020-07-10 5:05 ` Win Treese [this message]
2020-07-10 5:19 ` Warner Losh
2020-07-14 2:52 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-07-06 21:47 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-07-07 6:23 ` arnold
2020-07-07 21:45 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-07-06 21:18 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-07-06 21:47 ` John Cowan
2020-07-07 1:30 ` [TUHS] Editors (was: v7 uucp debugging help requested) Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2020-07-04 0:35 [TUHS] v7 uucp debugging help requested Norman Wilson
2020-07-07 19:20 Norman Wilson
2020-07-07 22:47 ` Rob Pike
2020-07-07 23:42 ` Adam Thornton
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