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From: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Uses for Edit
Summary: use Edit for files with binary.
Message-ID: <527@corpane.UUCP>
Date: 31 Mar 89 15:12:22 GMT
References: <6735@ecsvax.UUCP> <86@snll-arpagw.UUCP> <2311@cps3xx.UUCP>
Organization: Corpane Industries, Inc., Louisville Ky
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> >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.  
> >

If you've ever tried to edit a file with Ed and been told 'file contains
binary' and dumped back to the cli, that is what you need Edit for.

Edit will edit text files that might contain binary or escape charactors, Ed
will not. That's the only time I've ever used Edit.


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