wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (David Lesher) (10/06/90)
Many years ago I used to use 'Redit' on a large dual 370 that ran TSS. Since only 6 or 7 places in the world ran 370-TSS, I doubt that anyone else has used it.... But it DID have several unusual features that every_so_often, I sort of wish I still had. Has anyone else seen these? Zone: you could set the zone variable to be columns n1-n2 and search / replacement commands worked ONLY on those -- things elsewhere were ignored Hex You could turn on hex mode, and all input and output was then in hex, until you exited that mode, when it displayed it in (of course!) EBCDucky. This made it handy to locate that weird non printing character, such as the null that would silently kill the runoff program. (Alas, it would NOT number the lines in hex, (only decimal) which I needed one day while writing PROM code, as 64,000 lines of db'_' statements) Beside that, since the machine had 100 million words of 32 bit memory, it didn't complain TOO much about the large file. What unusual features have you seen in editors past that you grew to love and now miss? -- A host is a host from coast to coast.....wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu & no one will talk to a host that's close............(305) 255-RTFM Unless the host (that isn't close)......................pob 570-335 is busy, hung or dead....................................33257-0335