How do you tell a wizard?

Wm E Davidsen Jr davidsen at crdos1.crd.ge.COM
Tue Oct 31 02:38:01 AEST 1989


In article <1989Oct27.220632.5531 at wolves.uucp>, ggw at wolves.uucp (Gregory G. Woodbury) writes:
|  	Of course some wizards use vi!  Those whom eschew the baroque
|  verbosity of the wild variants of the one true UNIX appreciate the clean
|  and simple style of vi (despite its origins ;-)  Of course, for clean and
|  simple, not much can beat TECO ;-) ;-)

  Most of the people I think are even low grade wizards know vi, emacs,
and ed, because you never know what machine you have to fix next. Hell,
I bet a real wizard know edlin, sos, and teco, just to help the heathens
convert. 
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen at crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
"The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called
'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see
that the world is flat!" - anon



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