Date   : Sun, 15 Sep 1991 06:40:57 GMT
From   : unixhub!ditka!mv!mem@lll-winken.llnl.gov (Mark E. Mallett)
Subject: Re: TED text editor

In article <CMM.0.90.2.684626909.ephillip@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> ephillip@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
(Earl W Phillips) writes:
>
>To the fellow who posted on TED, the text editor: (sorry, I
>lost your email address). You mentioned that you are the
>editor of TED. I found TED on a televideo I'm trying to get
>working again, and would REALLY like to know how to use it,
>as it's the only editor on the machine right now! Is there
>any documentation still available, or would you provide those
>of us ignorant of it with a simple explanation? Thanx in
>advance for any help.....

I think that there were later editors also called TED, so you may not
have the one that I wrote.  At any rate, I have a document that I wrote
for it; it doesn't exactly match the distributed version, since somebody
else actually wrote a better document for it later, and that was used
instead.  (I don't have access to that other document.)

A test to find out if what you have is the TED that I wrote:

Run the program (type TED)

You'll get a single-character prompt (an asterisk or a pound sign,
something like that, depending on the version).  type

ex$$

where the '$' are ESCAPE keys (they echo as '$').  This will exit the
editor. 

If this isn't what you get, then you probably don't have my editor.  If
this is what you get, then I can send you the document if you'd like.

-mm-
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