Re: [Somewhat OT] What your non-OVMS machines run?

From: Paul Sture (nospam_at_sture.homeip.net)
Date: 07/30/04 

Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 16:42:32 +0200

Larry Kilgallen wrote:
> In article <2muihaFq5hahU1@uni-berlin.de>, Paul Sture <nospam@sture.homeip.net> writes:
>
>>
>>VMS can be extremely handy for things which are not so easy to do or
>>require extra software on other systems. For example if I have a bunch
>>of files on a PC which need some global changes, moving them to a VMS
>>system and using DCL and one of the editors can be _much_ faster than
>>doing the same on a PC.
>
>
> But if you upgrade to using TECO as your editor, wildcarding through
> the files can be accomplished from within the editor.

LOL! I _knew_ there was a reason I'd squirrelled away a copy of the TECO
manual. 

-- 
Paul Sture
OS X: "It's Unix, Jim, but not as we know it"

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