From: filthy-mcnasty AT NOSPAMbigfoot DOT com (Filthy Jim McNasty)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Win32 IDE for DJGPP / What IDE are you using?
Date: 1 Jul 2000 02:04:57 GMT
Organization: Risky Business
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neldredge AT hmc DOT edu (Nate Eldredge) wrote in 
<834s6asklh DOT fsf AT mercury DOT bitbucket>:

>Leon AT caresystems DOT com DOT au writes:
>
>> On 29 Jun 2000, at 15:01, Nate Eldredge wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> > It's a line editor standard on Unix,
>> 
>> pardon my stupidity - but what is a line editor?!
>
>It edits a line at a time, using a command-line style interface.
>
As with MS-DOS EdLin (God preserve me, but I actually found a use for this 
once, only once fortunately). But then we had manuals, rather than 
Microsoft pamphlets