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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: What became of QED
Message-ID: <6726@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Tue, 24-Nov-87 08:48:37 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 24 08:48:37 1987
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In article <10512@brl-adm.ARPA> jones%cs.uiowa.edu@RELAY.CS.NET (Douglas Jones) writes:
>Does anyone know why Ritchie and Thompson dropped the features they did when
>they made QED into ED on UNIX?  If the reason was memory capacity, now that
>most UNIX systems have capacity, why hasn't anyone put these features back
>into text processing tools such as SED?

So use "sam" (available from the AT&T UNIX System ToolChest in the dmd-pgmg
package); it has more support for regular expressions that "ed" and is nicer
in several other ways (even apart from its support for the DMD terminal).