Mark opens himself up to a cheap shot:

> It seems that HPEDIT and EDITOR refuse to edit Posix-named files under 5.5.
> (Come on, HP, how tough can it be to enhance those to tolerate Posix files???)
>
> It appears I can fool these programs by doing:
>
>         rename posix,mpe
>         hpedit mpe
>         rename mpe,posix
>
> But I was wondering if there was a more clever way.  Does anybody have
> suggestions?

Yes...

       QEDIT


:)


(Sorry, I just couldn't resist!)

You might be able to do:
   :file foo = ./my_posix_filename
   editor
   t *foo
   ...edit...
   k

But, I'm not sure.


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