[Info-vax] TECO (was: Re: The best VMS features, was: Re: openvms renaming file)

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2018-05-30 04:16:55 +0000, Michael Moroney said:

> Apparently that's the reason why the TECO code is so ugly. It's been 
> ported from one machine to another, possibly by a conversion program in 
> some cases, and by the time it made it to VAX the code was so ugly the 
> Alpha Macro-32 compiler wouldn't accept it, and nobody would (could?) 
> fix the code so that it would.  (It's VESTed on Alpha and the VESTed 
> Alpha code is AESTed on Itanic)

TECOC is rather more portable...  http://almy.us/teco.html


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