It is still too bad that Unix has no real editor.  I recall that Robelle ported
QEDIT to the HP9000.  If it is as good as on the 3000, then that would be my
suggestion.

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> Does anybody here know if the source for QUAD has ever been published, or if
> it has ever been ported to any unix platforms? I have a bizarre,
> uncontrollable urge to re-live my past glory days when I used to live in
> 3000-land.... Actually I need to do some mass-editing of some ascii data
> files wherein I need to change certain text strings that lie between certain
> column ranges in certain line number ranges and QUAD did this kind of thing
> oh so well. Unfortunately I don't have any HP3000 machines around me anymore,
> and I'd really rather not have to write dedicated "awk" editing scripts like
> I normally have been doing on unix.
>
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