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		rbanffy 65 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Using Microsoft's New CLI Text Editor on Ubuntu MS-DOS had edlin, which was their own take on ed. They never made a firm commitment, however, to make edlin the standard editor.

aforwardslash 65 days ago [–]

Edlin was the standard editor in dos 3.x. As far as I can remember, edit came later (dos 4.x-5?)

rbanffy 65 days 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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