[ale] POSSIBLE-SPAM-Re: C Compiler for Linux

[John P]

In some very early-to-me UNIX days, I ended up with a system that didn't have /bin, but I did have sh and /sbin. That means, no 'ls' or 'cat' commands.

Used 'dd' and 'echo *' to get it booting again. I wasn't very hopeful that the non-existent-system-backup would work to restore this system, anyway. ;)

Has anyone else used 'dd' as an editor?

That failure taught me backup religion, so something good did come from it.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Geoffrey Myers" <lists at serioustechnology.com>
To: "Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Monday, June 27, 2011 1:29:56 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: POSSIBLE-SPAM-Re: [ale] C Compiler for Linux

Lightner, Jeff wrote:
> Real geeks don’t use full screen editors – they use awk and sed to 
> manipulate files just because they can.
> 
>  
> 
> I remember using DOS’ line editor, edlin, back in the 80s.   One of the 
> great things about DOS 5 was it came with a full screen editor.

Used ed years ago on SVR3 to create a number of bourne scripts.