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oed 7.4 for DOS (Announce)

posted by Rugxulo , Usono, 20.04.2024, 12:47

> Portable OpenBSD ed(1) for DOS, source code included.

N.B. "OED" normally means "Oxford English Dictionary", which is pretty authoritative.

Cool, I'm actually interested (mostly due to my love of Sed, but I've also used GNU and Minix Ed a small bit).

> Requires an 8086 CPU or better.

bcc/dev86?? Is that tested? Small model doesn't offer much room to breathe.

I get wanting to use Free tools, but OpenWatcom is so much better. Heck, even IA-16 ELF/GCC would hopefully be better.

> Built with the tiny-regex-c library.

You also included bsded.exe for the normal regex build. Doesn't POSIX include regex anyways? DJGPP has some of it (BRE?), but it's probably slower than GNU's. I think in old days the BSD people based theirs on Henry Spencer's code. Even Borland used some of his code in later years.

Grep and Sed both evolved from Ed. Diff used to only target Ed. Ed evolved into Ex (Vi) and Sam.

* https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/ed.html

Complete thread:

• oed 7.4 for DOS - bencollver, 19.04.2024, 20:16 (Announce)
  • oed 7.4 for DOS - Rugxulo, 20.04.2024, 12:47
    • oed 7.4 for DOS - bencollver, 20.04.2024, 16:36
  • oed 7.4 for DOS - roytam, 25.04.2024, 10:03
    • oed 7.4 for DOS - bencollver, 25.04.2024, 16:22
    • oed 7.4 for DOS - bencollver, 27.04.2024, 01:37
      • oed 7.4 for DOS - bencollver, 29.04.2024, 06:09
        • oed 7.4 for DOS - bencollver, 29.04.2024, 19:35
          • oed 7.4 for DOS - Rugxulo, 27.05.2024, 19:02
            • oed 7.4 for DOS - bencollver, 28.05.2024, 15:46
  • oed 7.4 for DOS - bencollver, 22.08.2024, 22:05