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From: steveha@microsoft.UUCP (Steve Hastings)
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Subject: Re: EX clone for the PC?
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Date: 13 Aug 90 19:10:16 GMT
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In article <27967@netnews.upenn.edu> weisen@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Neil Weisenfeld) writes:
>I am looking for an MS-DOS version of the UNIX ex editor.

MKS vi, which comes with the MKS Toolkit and is also sold by itself, has an
ex mode.  You can start it with "vi -e" for ex mode, or you can make a copy
of vi.exe renamed to ex.exe and it will always start up in ex mode.
(Assuming you run DOS 3.0 or above.)

A friend of mine used the MKS ex.exe in a batch file to process the output
of a diff command.  The diff command has an option to emit a script for ed,
and ex is a superset of ed.  (If you think you were wide open for ridicule,
picture my friend running around a bunch of non-UNIX people asking for a
copy of _ed_ for MS-DOS!)
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