wa371@sdcc12.UUCP (wa371) (01/26/85)
Has anyone heard of the 'Rand' editor? I found it on a
Perkin-Elmer 3210 running under UNIX-7 (Bourne and C-shell).
Where did the Rand editor originate and who supports it?
Is it from Perkin-Elmer? It seems to be much more user-friendly
than vi. It seems to be a page editor which draws windows,
can display several files simultaneously, tells you at all
times what is going on, and many other neat things.
By the way, everyone on that system prefers the Rand editor
over vi, except for the systems administrator. And he insists
on pronouncing vi like 'vye' instead of 'vee-eye'. (His previous job
was with Control Data.)
Any comments?
Bernd Riechelmann (Not affiliated with U.C. San Diego)
UUCP: ...!ucbvax!sdcsvax!sdcc12!wa371, ARPA: sdcsvax!sdcc12!wa371@noscbsa@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) (02/05/85)
Since the Rand editor is supposed (last I heard) to come with MH, and I have a question about MH... MH is supposed to be available (a) for Xenix systems (amongst others), and (b) on tape. But we have a TRS-80 Model 16 running Xenix... and Tandy has yet to provide a tape drive for it. (Not on our hard disk. There is supposed to be one on TRS-80 35 meg drives. Not that it has a standard format.) So, my questions: 1) is MH actually available for our machine, or did we fall in the cracks? 2) How would it be made available to us? TRS-Xenix format floppies? UUCP? Or plan X? Thanks in advance, Brandon (bsa@ncoast.UUCP) -- Brandon Allbery @ decvax!cwruecmp!ncoast!bsa (..ncoast!tdi1!bsa business) 6504 Chestnut Road, Independence, Ohio 44131 +1 216 524 1416 (or what have you)