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From: erl@jt.dk (Erik B. Larsen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: BRIEF lookalike for Unix?
Message-ID: <786@jt.dk>
Date: 20 Feb 91 19:31:21 GMT
References: <1991Feb10.213208.1059@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us>
Organization: Jutland Telephone Co. Denmark
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mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) writes:

>A friend of mine has just moved from MS-DOS to Unix, and while he
>likes all the neato-keen features that Unix has, he misses his
>favorite editor, BRIEF.  So, I was wondering if anybody has heard
>of a BRIEF lookalike that runs under Unix.  PD/freeware preferred,
>but commercialware would probably be okay, too.

>-- 
>Marc Unangst                | "I think I have a bad disk.  Even though I
>mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us   |  folded it to fit into my drive, it still
>...!umich!leebai!mudos!mju  |  doesn't work..." -Caller to a tech support line


If your friend are glad for Brief, I understand him.

You see - Emacs is an editor, which works on most Unix system.
Emacs was devolped before Brief, so Brief is the DOS answar of Emacs.

You can get Emacs free from GNU.

Regards


Erik Bruijn Larsen
Systemadministrator
Jutland Telephone Company
Denmark
Email : erl@jt.dk

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