Subj : Re: NT video driver quality? To : Tony Ingenoso From : Gregg Strom/BRYX Int'l Date : Wed Apr 04 2001 01:53 pm From: "Gregg Strom/BRYX Int'l" A salute, sir! gs "Tony Ingenoso" wrote in message news:3acbe89a@w3.nls.net... > Don't be dissing EDLIN - its one of the few, albeit brain dead, editors that > you can drive from a batch file using a redirected input script. There are > more powerful ones, but someone constructing a batch procedure can always > rely on trusty(crusty?) old EDLIN to be there ;-> > > Same thing goes for DEBUG - it can be driven with redirected input too. > > This isn't just idle blather either -- this aspect of these two little > gadgets allowed me to automate procedures at Prudential that otherwise would > have been impossible...apparently there was no way for the Configuration > Managment staff to get authorization to buy any compilers -- because we > weren't a "programming" group. > > So I got pretty damn creative using DEBUG and EDLIN. That builtin DEBUG > assembler came in pretty handy at times. > > I developed a bit of a local reputation as a practitioner in black arts with > some of the stuff I whipped up using these neanderthal tools. > > Tony <-- living proof that Alan Turing WAS right ;-> > > wrote in message > news:ormnct831ihcjcug7di9b46g2hfsa32cne@4ax.com... > > On Tue, 3 Apr 2001 18:41:28 -0400, "Geo." wrote: > > > > >Get a Mac, they have a command line now (they don't boot but they do > leave > > >you at a sort of command line prompt). > > > > I've got a Model 70A21 here that will give me my edlin fix. > > > > - Richard > > --- BBBS/NT v4.00 MP * Origin: Barktopia Gating Project http://HarborWebs.com:8081 (1:379/45) .