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>Hmmmm... I always thought that it was Text Editor And Corrector, but yesterday,
>my girlfriend was quizzing me with PDP-11 trivia cards, and she came across a
>card which claimed that it stands for *Tape* Editor and Corrector. I have a
>hard time believing this one... does anyone know anything about this meaning?

I've always heard *Tape* Editor and COrrector. Remember that back when
TECO was first a thing most files were stored on tapes (microtapes.)

Sort of gives the term "diskless workstation" a whole different
meaning.

In fact, TECO under VMS (1.6, TECO running in the PDP-11 emulator) did
a damn good job of playing with mag tapes and I often used it to
diddle a munged tape (or is that mung a diddled tape?)

Notice the P and Y commands in TECO which pull in and roll out block
sized chunks one at a time for editing? Now think about how you might
design an editor for tape files...uh huh, you got it. Now you know why
it has those strange commands.

We keep TECO in /usr/games/teco on our machine.

Anyone have any good TECO macros? DEC TECO, I have no access to ITS
TECO (er, as some would say, REAL TECO.) I once wrote a full screen,
menu driven help utility for VMS in TECO which used the VMS HELP
files.  Unfortunately 2.0 screwed it up by using load libraries or
some such silliness to store HELP files. I never figured out why.
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