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From: wnp@dcs.UUCP (Wolf N. Paul)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Vi for the PC/XT
Summary: He means "stevie"
Message-ID: <122@dcs.UUCP>
Date: 22 Jun 88 04:35:49 GMT
References: <4943@watcgl.waterloo.edu> <2555@mind.UUCP>
Reply-To: wnp@dcs.UUCP (Wolf N. Paul)
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In article <2555@mind.UUCP> romero@mind.UUCP (Antonio Romero) writes:
>In article <4943@watcgl.waterloo.edu>, nnpeterson@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Neil N. Peterson) writes:
>> Has anyone out there ported the unix source for Vi (posted a short while ago)
>> to the IBM PC/XT?  If so I would dearly love to know, it would save me some
>> badly needed time.
>
>	3) Are you sure the Unix source for VI was posted recently? If so,
>someone's in a whole lot of trouble when AT&T hears about it...

I think what the original poster is referring to is a program called
"stevie", a (limited) vi-lookalike originally written for the Atari ST.
It was posted a few weeks ago to comp.sources.misc.

There are two other vi lookalikes with source code around:

1. Webb Miller, A Software Tools Sampler (Prentice Hall 1987) includes
   source code to an editor called "s", which is also available on a
   DOS diskette. Call Jim Fegen's office at P-H, (201)-592-2000, Ext. 3123,
   for ordering instructions.

2. Marc Rochkind has a book out, called something like "Portable C Programming
   for Displays"; don't know the publisher. It also includes source to a
   vi-like editor, and I would be surprised if it were not also available
   on disk, probably from Marc's company.

I agree with Antonio, however, that MKS' vi is probably your best bet
if you want a truly UNIX-compatible vi environment, especially since CSS'
and PC-VI's demise. The "Z" editor from Manx, at least the version floating
around the BBS, lacks most of the useful ex commands (like substitute, etc.).
I'm also still not sure that it is really kosher -- I have seen no statement
from MANX to the effect that it is PD or shareware.

Wolf
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