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From: jpk@ingres.com (Jon Krueger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re:  AmigaTECO (I kid you not)
Message-ID: <1991Jan9.085052.4096@ingres.Ingres.COM>
Date: 9 Jan 91 08:50:52 GMT
References: <1990Dec30.154444.21199@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG>
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From article <1990Dec30.154444.21199@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG>,
 by xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan):
> Or watch a grown man break down and cry. Edit a file with TECO. At the
> top, get distracted, forget you're in TECO command mode, and type
> "edit". You just:
> 
> 	moved the curser to the "e"nd of the file;
> 	"d"eleted every thing from mark (by default the initial cursor
> 		position, top of file) to dot (the current position);
> 	went into "i"nsert mode;
> 	inserted a "t".
> 
> My favorite TECO story.  ;-)

It's a great story.  It's a true story.  Except the editor in question
wasn't TECO.  In TECO ED might match one of the exit or file reading
commands (some TECOs), the IT would indeed insert a T if ED had completed
correctly in some way, otherwise either nothing would happen or (some
TECOs) an attempt would be made to open file IT.  TECO is dangerous
enough without making it seem more so.  If you do want to delete the
file HD will do nicely.

-- Jon
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Jon Krueger, jpk@ingres.com