[Xastir] The ultimate editor...

[Craig Anderson]

At the risk of digressing clear off the map, in the early 80's I used  
to manage a PDP-11/45 Unix v7 system (with BSD 2.7 mods) that  
supported 500 active accounts for the university Computer Science  
program.  This system was highly modified and would crash about once  
every 2 weeks and would stomp on the superblock of one or more  
filesystems during the crash.  The only way to fix it was to use "adb"  
to edit the raw disk device and poke in enough numbers into the  
superblock so that fsck could reconstruct the filesystem and the rest  
of the superblock.  With all those students and faculty waiting.....  
making nose-prints on the glass of the Computer Center windows.....  
watching.....

Now that's real editing.

Craig

On Apr 19, 2009, at 8:18 AM, Gerry Creager wrote:

> I'm remiss in not mentioning sed and awk.
>
> David Aitcheson wrote:
>> Neither Cat (nor Dog) can edit like vi !!!
>> On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Jason KG4WSV <kg4wsv at gmail.com>  
>> wrote:
>>> Nah, there's always cat.
>>>
>>> -Jason
>>> kg4wsv
>>>
>> Dave
>> KB3EFS
>
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