Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!cernvax!hjm From: hjm@cernvax.UUCP (hjm) Newsgroups: comp.os.vms Subject: Re: TECO in VMS 5 Message-ID: <743@cernvax.UUCP> Date: 6 Jul 88 07:51:37 GMT References: <2073*kenw@noah.arc.cdn> Reply-To: hjm@cernvax.UUCP (Hubert Matthews) Organization: CERN European Laboratory for Particle Physics, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland Lines: 17 In article <2073*kenw@noah.arc.cdn> kenw%noah.arc.CDN@ean.ubc.ca (Ken Wallewein) writes: > > 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 ... Hubert Matthews