Re: [Thinkpad] OT (but it beats OS wars): What's EDLIN?

NONONO..
it made me dizzy then, when i was much younger..
now it'll crash my brain...

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Cordially,
Bill Morrow
(from NetFinity Server)
web page: http://www.thinkpads.com
bill@thinkpads.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Geary" <Mike@geary.com>
To: "Bill - ThinkPads dot Com" <bill@thinkpads.com>; "Mick
McQuaid" <mcquaid@u.arizona.edu>
Cc: "ThinkPad Mailing List" <thinkpad@stderr.org>
Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 12:09 AM
Subject: [Thinkpad] OT (but it beats OS wars): What's EDLIN?

> > From: Bill - ThinkPads dot Com
> >
> > if memory serves, EDLIN was that wonderful little text
> > editor that came with CP/M..
> > (yet another OS of a sort)..
> > you entered text blind, and only saw what you had
> > after you hit CRLF..
> > i think.. :-)
>
> Bill, try typing these commands in a Command Prompt window
on your XP
> system:
>
> edlin tryedlin.txt
> ?
> I
> howdy
> folks
> <Ctrl+Z>
> L
> 2I
> there
> <Ctrl+Z>
> L
> E
> type tryedlin.txt
>
> Sure beats those silly wizzie-wiggie editors, doesn't it!
>
> For more information:
>
> http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edlin
>
> -Mike
>
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