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i don't understand where the file system / hard disk content is store.
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I think this is when you learn that ed is truly the ubiquitous editor. None of these fancy visual editors like vi, also if the date is to be believed, this predates vi by a year (1976 is when Joy created it if I remember right). Also, I just realized its been a long time since I had to use ed, but this is fun. Its like a more civilized age of unix, ls -l doesn't print groups. So much fun to be had here.
I tried vi and edit commands and they didn't work. Thanks for this hint about ed. Works in the this pdp emulator. Out of curiosity I also tried ed on my Ubuntu and it works here too. Shouldn't obsolete tools like these be removed from the newer linux kernels? Or is there a significant population that still uses it directly or indirectly (using some tools that use ed)?
As for "should obsolete tools be removed" no! Everything in UNIX is built upon something else. You could and still can build the most useful shell scripts to support whatever task. Treat UNIX commands like any computer programming langaue commands and you have tools.
Just a week ago I'm using dd to convert old IBM mainframe from "EBCDIC" to "ASCII" data. Followed that up by writing some C language code to process packed decimal data.
All in All *NIX is the most useful command line platform there is!
Website scraping anyone, start with "wget".
Bye now.
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Strange, I'm on the same config as you and apart from 'wump' I was in nostalgia-wumpus heaven. :) Chrome 10.0.648.204 (amd64 linux.)
Sorry my bad. Its firefox4 :) Apparently I am still getting used to the firefox 4 UI where the tabs take up most of the screen.
I've been trying to get this to crash with a 64-bit build on Mac, but mostly falling into holes in cave floors...