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From: OBERMAN@ICDC.LLNL.GOV ("Kevin Oberman, LLNL, 422-6955", 415)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: TECO in VMS 5
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Date: 11 Jul 88 16:18:00 GMT
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>>  For a while, now, I've been reading/hearing rumours about full-native TECO
>>coming with VMS Version 5. Somebody who knows, please tell us all - can it
>>really be true? I'd give a lot to be able to use TECO on this MicroVax II! 
>>
>>/kenw
>
>It was a DEC decision to 'kill' TECO a long way back (VMS V4.0, I think), so
>it won't be coming back in a hurry.  Pity really, in what other editor can you
>type in your name as a command and see what happened.
>
>Seriously, DEC are committed to promoting TPU which has almost all the
>possibilities of good ol' TECO like editing a buffer, then using it as a
>command upon itself.  But, somehow, it's just not the same ...

Please be sure of your facts before answering questions like this! VMS V5
does contain a native mode TECO which runs on ALL VAXen. I ought to know.
I'm running VMS V5 on a VAXstation 2000 and TECO saved my *** when I had
to edit a file before I get the windowing SW installed. (I never did learn
to use EDT in the line mode.)

					R. Kevin Oberman
					Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
					Internet: oberman@icdc.llnl.gov
   					(415) 422-6955

Disclaimer: Don't take this too seriously. I just like to improve my typing
and probably don't really know anything useful about anything.