mjd@saul.cis.upenn.edu (Mark-Jason Dominus) (10/12/90)
Years ago, when I still used `vi' most of the time, I asked Jeff Putnam what the advantages of Emacs were. I remember that he said you could edit a binary file with it and that I admitted that that might be useful someday. That day has come. Our `rn' was malconfigured and was giving Reply-To: addresses as Reply-To: mjd@grad1.cis.upenn.edu.UUCP (M-J. Dominus) which of course is wrong. (I never use `rn' myself, of course; I use GNUS. There's another use for Emacs. Heh.) So rather than reconfigure and recompile rn, I just hacked out the `.UUCP' in the string constants in the binary. (And padded the end with five spaces, of course.) Sort of a run-of-the-mill hack, but it was nice to finally use Emacs to do the thing I had in mind when I first started using it, lo, these many years ago. -- In some sense a stochastic process can do better; at least it has a chance. Mark-Jason Dominus mjd@central.cis.upenn.edu