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		aforwardslash 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Using Microsoft's New CLI Text Editor on Ubuntu Edlin was the standard editor in dos 3.x. As far as I can remember, edit came later (dos 4.x-5?)

rbanffy 3 months ago [–]

I don’t remember any tools that output edlin commands that could be piped to it the same way it’s done with ed.

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