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From: Dickson@his-phoenix-multics.arpa (Paul Dickson)
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Subject: Re: Alternatives to ed in CP/M-86
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Date: Mon, 19-Jan-87 21:44:42 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 19 21:44:42 1987
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From:   Andrew K Weaver <akw%osupyr.uucp at cbosgd.uucp>:
>Being somewhat naive about CP/M anyhow, I am open game for flames, so be
>gentle.  I am taking a Computer Science class in assembler and we are using
>CP/M-86 of all things on the PC.  I simply do NOT want to use ed line-based
>editing; it offends me, considering I am using GNU Emacs to write this article
>to the net.
>
>Are there any versions of MicroEMACS or any other screen-oriented editors
>for CP/M-86?  If so, please post or e-mail me a response (or, possibly,
>uencoded stuff if possible)  Thanks...

I ran CP/M-86 for two years on my non-ibm compatible micro and I have
only found one editor that was of any use: Turbo Pascal. The editor was
well worth the sixty or seventy dollars I spent. You can even configure
the keys to be something like emacs.

          -Paul Dickson
          Dickson%pco @ HI-Multics