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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Uses for Edit
Message-ID: <2311@cps3xx.UUCP>
Date: 29 Mar 89 16:41:14 GMT
References: <6735@ecsvax.UUCP> <86@snll-arpagw.UUCP>
Reply-To: porkka@frith.UUCP (Joseph A Porkka)
Organization: Michigan State University
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In article <86@snll-arpagw.UUCP> paolucci@snll-arpagw.UUCP (Sam Paolucci) writes:
>In article <6735@ecsvax.UUCP> utoddl@ecsvax.UUCP (Todd M. Lewis) writes:
>->
>->Does anybody use Edit?
>->I have yet to understand.  I keep hoping that enlightenment will
>->come and Edit will solve some problems for me.  
>
>Since most people have their own favorite editor, Edit as well as Ed should
>be moved to the Extras disk to make room for more useful stuff in WorkBench.

Although I have never used it myself,
I think I remember from my AmigaDos User manual you can use Edit
from a batch file This would allow you to, say bump the revision
number in source file, automagically every time, just before it
gets compiled.

It could also be used to systematically change files from
one format to another. At least for text files.

subpost: this is not big enuff for a post in itself:
	If you use Lattice, try -. as the first option to lc1 and lc2
	to turn off the copyright notice.
	It works in v3.10, and probly in higher versions.

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