Re: [COFF] Other OSes?

Hi Steve, I still write the odd editor script. I interact with ed every day; it's handy when the information for the edit is on the TTY from previous commands and you just want to get in, edit, and w, q. A shell script and ed script I use a lot is ~/bin/rcsanno, a `blame' for RCS files that I have dotted about. RCS because SCCS wasn't available back before CSSC came along. I runs through each revision on the path I'm interested in, e.g. 1.1 to the latest 1.42. It starts with 1.1, but with `1,1:' prepended to each line. For 1.2 onwards it does an rcsdiff(1) with `-e': produce an ed script. This is piped into a brief bit of awk that munges the ed script to prepend the revision to any added or changed line, and then it's fed into ed. Thus the `1.2' that's created has all lines match /^1\.[12]:/. And so on up to 1.42. It's not the quickest way compared to interpreting the RCS `,v' file, but it required no insight into that file format and is `good enough'. I suspect a more interesting question is what did Unix adopt from other OSes that it would have been better without! :-) -- Cheers, Ralph. https://plus.google.com/+RalphCorderoy