Howdy,

Yep, Robelle ported QEDIT to UNIX and it works pretty well :-)  Under the
11.0 UX release HP
no longer supports block mode read.  So there goes your full screen editor
:-(

jt

On Wednesday, November 11, 1998 8:26 AM, Tom Hula
[SMTP:[log in to unmask]] wrote:
> 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.
>
> [log in to unmask] wrote:
>
> > 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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