"Richard Dault" <rda### [at] yahoocom> wrote :
>
> No point.  I read that somewhere a long time ago and found it funny.
Edlin
> is one of the funniest editors written and is still distributed with all
> versions of Windows.  I wonder why?  I really don't think anyone uses it
> anymore (or ever has!).

    I used it extensively. Before windows and for some time after the first
releases. When a person's computer was killed by things like deleting
command.com or autoexec.bat, I would go in with a small dos disk with edlin
and a few other tools and set it back up.

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