[Simh] Editors you love/hate.

[Brett Bump]

On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, Rich Alderson wrote:

> > From: Peter Lund <firefly at vax64.dk>
> > Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 20:54:08 +0200
>
> > On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 12:22 -0600, Brett Bump wrote:
>
> >> Hmm...yank yank print, or was that yank yank "2" print if I wanted my LA36
> >> to print me 2 lines (with TECO)?
>
> > I don't think TECO or its descendants are particularly nice, either :(
>
> As maintainer (and occasional developer) of the original TECO-based EMACS, I
> take exception to that! ;-)

roflmao.  Thank you Rich, take that Peter. lol  I only used Micro-Emacs on
an Amiga for a short time (that's what they called it).  Once CygnusEd got
me converted, I just never went back (but remember them fondly ;-).

> >>   But for platform compression, the
> >> defaults for Windows has been (zip), for Apples (originally pac), for the
> >> Amiga it was (lhz or lha), original "Unix" was (compress .Z) and for the
> >> open source *nix variants, (gunzip, or bzip2).
>
> > I thought most Macs used StuffIt back in the day?

Yup, that's right it was PackIt and StuffIt (on the MilkBox Macs lol).
Well I never did use them (past the Apple-II's), and those machines
didn't really have an os (it was a wedge).

> "Back in the day"?  Still do, as far as I can tell.  In the 23+ years I've been
> using Macs, I've seen DL, HEX, HCX, HQX (later misused by BinHex 5 as well) for
> encoding, and PackIt and StuffIt for archiving (as well as one I'm forgetting
> earlier than PackIt with a .cpt extension--or was that "compressed PackIt"?).
> I think .pac is something Apple tried out, but it never gained much ground with
> the general populace.
>
>                                                                 Rich Alderson
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BINHEX, now there's an old one.  Not really a compression program, just
a way to send the code in readable format. ;-)

Brett