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SedSokoban

Posted by michael on from the things-that-should-be-illegal-but-aren't dept.

rsd writes: "Have you ever thought that sed is too limited and only useful to Regular Expression scripts? Well, verde666, who works for Conectiva, proved that it can be used for games too. He wrote a sokoban game named sedsokoban with sed. There is even a screenshot."

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  1. Don't mistake the tool for the skill... by BoBaBrain · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's possible to sculpt Venus using only a nail file (and a lump of marble).
    That doesn't mean nail files are any more useful than we thought.

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    I am a Karma Library.
  2. Re:Ummm....What? by anpe · · Score: 5, Informative

    Sed stands for Stream EDitor. It's part of the New Command-Line eXPerience(tm) that Microsoft ships with Microsoft Word (tm) so that the user can easily writte DOS-mode games while editing.

    If you really don't know what SED is, then Google's your friend : http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Software /Editors/SED/

  3. Re:Ummm....What? by marnanel · · Score: 5, Informative

    Sed is a stream editor-- it takes a file and modifies it according to your instructions (such as "add a space at the start of every line"). Here's a quick introduction, and here's the sed FAQ from comp.editors.

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  4. Sokoban in Nethack by 6R1MM · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'd just like to point out that sokoban can be played inside nethack. It's actually a series of levels in the game called The Sokoban Tower. For those that don't know, nethack is an ASCII-based graphical RPG with movement controls inspired by vi.

  5. A wise man once said... by ct · · Score: 5, Funny

    To quote Chris Rock in Bigger and Blacker,

    "Just because I can drive a car with my feet - doesn't make it a good fucking idea".

    //ct