[net.general] ed in fortran -- thanks

rick (06/25/82)

Thanks to all who answered my request for information about unix-ed-like
editor written in ratfor.  The answer to the question seems to be that
there is indeed such a beast.  It is 'developed' in Kernighan and Plauger's
book "Software Tools".  And the source code, if you are too lazy to key it
in for yourself from the listings in the book, can be purchased for the
price of a mag-tape from the publisher, McGraw-Hill.

Several people mentioned that they had brought up this implementation on their
local non-unix computers.  Few mentioned anything about how well they
liked it once they had it up.  I'm not sure how to interpret that datum,
but I did make that observation.