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- From: c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca (Kazimir Kylheku)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Simple wordwrapping editor code?
- Date: 24 Feb 1996 12:26:14 -0800
- Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
- Message-ID: <4gns96INN14v@keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca>
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- In article <312b0b69.5468442@news>,
- Faye Pearson <faye@fe-line.demon.co.uk> wrote:
- >Hi,
- >
- >Dows anyone know if there is some simple editor source code around?
- >
- >I want to write a BBS Door so if it used ANSI/AVATAR Control sequences
- >for positioning the cursor, scrolling etc. that would be a bonus :-)
-
- This is stupid in the days of cheaply available UNIX. I'm dialed up via modem
- into a UNIX machine where I can not only use the best text editor the world has
- ever seen (but I won't name it, of course, but suffice it to say that it does
- far more than word wrap), but I can write C programs, compile them into machine
- language and execute them---while a dozen other users are going about their
- business. There are all kinds of BBS packages available, even text-based WWW
- browsers.
-
- ``BBS Doors'' are a thing of the early eighties when dial up bulletin boards
- were toys for weird kids like me to set up for other weird kids.
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