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From: neufeld@aurora.physics.utoronto.ca (Christopher Neufeld)
Subject: Re: SRC for ORCA APW?
Message-ID: <1991Apr7.153019.1104@helios.physics.utoronto.ca>
Keywords: ORCA APW SRC SOURCE OPERATING EVIRONMENT
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Date: Sun, 7 Apr 1991 15:30:19 GMT

In article <1991Apr7.064013.7167@ee.ualberta.ca> jpenne@ee.ualberta.ca (Jerry Penner) writes:
>In article <252u3744.670976231@fergvax> 252u3744@fergvax.unl.edu (Jerry Annin) writes:
>
>>	I was wondering if anyone has tapped the potential for this
>>	operating environment.  In particular porting some unix commands
>>	that would be useful.  Or making GS specific commands.  How
>>	about vi?  Or modem/terminal progs?  I see a great area for
>	      ^^
>Well, I like vi for a unix editor (never learned emacs) and I can do
>just about anything I need to in it.  (Cut, paste, macros, etc, etc)
>But I'd rather use an editor without the insert/cursor move modes.  I
>would like to see an editor for the Orca environment that fully
>supported regular expressions for search and replace, however.
>
   Get MicroEMACS. It works very well under the ORCA shell and has only
an insert mode. It also allows pattern searches, though probably of a
different syntax than that of 'vi'.
   Other programs that I've used to enhance my shell are the UNIX
compress command (I renamed ORCA's compress to 'purge') and uuen/uudecode.


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