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    This is not a guide.

    This is a historical document. It is also a de facto encouragement
    to drop any further use of EDLIN, unless you're really interested
    in an ancient, command-driven, cryptic, poorly equipped line editor
    that can't print or properly display its own files, created in the
    days when 64 KB of RAM and a 180K floppy was a huge resource, when
    WYSIWYG was a typo, and good users were dead users.


    Putting EDLIN to work in this day and age is mainly for enthusiasts,
    since it can't deny its age. However, its advantages carry weight:

    ■   There are a lot of copies of EDLIN around. Until DOS 5.0, EDLIN
        was the editor that accompanied DOS.

    ■   Its ability to read from standard input and write to standard
        output makes it possible to issue EDLIN commands from a script
        file and to redirect its output to wherever you want it.

    ■   EDLIN is charming in its own unique way.


    Me /Herning BaadeVærft! ■ April 1993