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From: Angelo Papenhoff <aap@papnet.eu>
To: TUHS main list <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: ed: multiple addresses (with semicolons)
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2022 11:25:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Ysqa/7DWQ/XTiIMt@indra.papnet.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKH6PiUr9FQ7N06_iSxQ=4vbQG137aaiNFSUmQ3JB3qjjXjFuw@mail.gmail.com>

On 08/07/22, Douglas McIlroy wrote:
> Ed was essentially a stripped-down version of Multics qed. The latter
> was originally written by Ken.

Does anyone know if this version has survived? Current Multics has qedx,
but it seems to be a stripped down version of qed as well. In fact I
find Unix ed nicer to use than qedx.

And a question about pronunciation: I've heard qedx pronounced as
"queddix" and I know ed is "ee dee". What about qed?

aap

  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-07-10  9:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-07-08 13:23 [TUHS] " Douglas McIlroy
2022-07-08 16:01 ` [TUHS] " Ken Thompson
2022-07-08 19:13   ` markus schnalke
2022-07-09  8:10     ` steve jenkin
2022-07-09  8:22       ` Rob Pike
2022-07-10  3:50         ` Jon Forrest
2022-07-10  9:25 ` Angelo Papenhoff [this message]
2022-07-10  9:59   ` Ralph Corderoy
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2022-07-11 17:30 Douglas McIlroy
2022-07-18 10:52 ` markus schnalke
2022-07-08 21:36 Douglas McIlroy
2022-07-11 14:40 ` markus schnalke
2022-07-08  7:47 [TUHS] " markus schnalke
2022-07-08  8:09 ` [TUHS] " markus schnalke

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