[JRandomFreeper]

Cold busted. But I still have a copy of WordStar(tm) on a SSSD 8" floppy. And unless the catz got to it, a copy of the original DBase(tm) executable.

I was precocious.

I couldn't help it. ;)

I've still got the text for AWK, SED, and grep on the shelf.

But I'm weird that way.

/johnny

[5thGenTexan]

I've still got the text for AWK, SED, and grep on the shelf.

I just bought the Perl book (there's more than one way to do it)...

[MarkL]

I've still got the text for AWK, SED, and grep on the shelf

I think in my last move, I finally lost some stuff I was keeping for sentimental reasons: A number of the original Oreilly "Nutshell Handbooks," back when the covers looked like grocery store bag paper and stapled together, including their termcap and programming in curses books... And a couple of prized wall posters I had picked up from the original Computer Literacy bookstore... And my entire collection of Guru and Unix World magazines... I used to have a yellow t-shirt with Root the Dragon on it...

Mark

[Texas Fossil]

GREP is still a very powerful tool. I used it extensively in my last scripted publishing job. I used PDFtk to open a finish .pdf and extracted the final item sequence and item page number using GREP. Had to precondition the opened .pdf with a text editor to allow that. The weird syntax for proportional spacing between repeating numeral 1’s caused that.

I never used a Unix system (used DOS, Windows, Linux, AS400), but have used Linux for 15 years. It is NOT Unix, but many of the commands are identical. And it is a lot more friendly.