Loading your 18" gigantic 5 MB disc in the tray, and giving it 5 minutes to
temperature equalize.

On Thu, Jun 30, 2022 at 2:26 PM Marc Donner <marc.donner@gmail.com> wrote:

> And, of course, even worse editing with cat!
> =====
> nygeek.net
> mindthegapdialogs.com/home <https://www.mindthegapdialogs.com/home>
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 30, 2022 at 5:22 PM Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com> wrote:
>
>> When your tty settings are messed up, ed(1) has saved my butt a number
>> of times.  Also really pleasant to use on slow modems where just the
>> screen refresh takes a long time.
>>
>> ed foo.c
>> /^busted_function
>> .,.+20p
>>
>> is dramatically faster than vi(1) at 300 baud.
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 30, 2022 at 09:49:19PM +0100, Chris Pinnock via TUHS wrote:
>> > Editing /etc/inittab with ed(1).
>> >
>> > > On 30 Jun 2022, at 21:43, Robert Stanford via TUHS <tuhs@tuhs.org>
>> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > editing /etc/inittab
>> > >
>>
>> --
>> ---
>> Larry McVoy            Retired to fishing
>> http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/boat
>>
>

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James D. (jj) Johnston

Chief Scientist, Immersion Networks