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Re: ed 0.2 assumes commands are in /bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin/:.


From: Andrew L. Moore
Subject: Re: ed 0.2 assumes commands are in /bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin/:.
Date: 12 Apr 2002 08:29:52 -0700
User-agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley)

In message <address@hidden>, Miles Bader writes:
>Hopefully removing the address@hidden&** `Press <RETURN> to continue...' crap*.
>[That _can't_ be POSIX conformant, right?]
>
>-Miles
>
>*Edit a long file and do `1,$p'.

I agree that this is vile behavior for the `p' command.
On the other hand, it seems to me reasonable for
the paging command `z' when viewing long lines (i.e., that wrap).
The `z' command in GNU ed 0.2 appears to be broken, though, too...
-AM



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