What is the Rand editor?

M.RINDSBERG mr at hou2h.UUCP
Fri Feb 1 01:34:45 AEST 1985


>      The Rand Editor comes from the Rand Corporation, in Santa Monica, CA.
> It can be obtained at low cost in source form from them.  It's quite old 
> (we've been using it since 1978) and it has few features by VI or EMACS
> standards, but it is extremely simple to use (if the function keys are
> marked properly, all a new user needs to know to use it can be written
> on the back of a business card.)
>      Interactive Systems used to sell it as their ``Intext'' editor, and
> offered it on a modified Perkin-Elmer Owl terminal downloaded with some
> local processing code, but they no longer support that product.

I used to use the editor from Interactive Systems. It is a great editor,
especially for cut and paste. (of course the owl was a suitable terminal
for this type of usage).

					Mark



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