Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mandrill!gatech!udel!princeton!mind!romero From: romero@mind.UUCP (Antonio Romero) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Vi for the PC/XT Summary: To the best of my knowledge, it's not. Message-ID: <2557@mind.UUCP> Date: 22 Jun 88 15:05:36 GMT References: <4943@watcgl.waterloo.edu> <2555@mind.UUCP> <122@dcs.UUCP> Distribution: comp Organization: Cognitive Science, Princeton University Lines: 25 In article <122@dcs.UUCP>, wnp@dcs.UUCP (Wolf N. Paul) writes: > 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 recently) > >> to the IBM PC/XT? > 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 I seem to remember this came up some time ago in this group, and the answer was that Z was ABSOLUTELY NOT PD. If you have an illegal copy, erase it immediately or we'll send the Software Police... :-) But seriously, I wouldn't pick up Z as a VI clone, even if it was legally free... it's too small a subset to be useful. If you're really strapped for cash, consider that MKS will sell VI on it own, with a few other little utilities thrown in, for considerably less than the rest of the Toolkit. (Don't recall the exact price, but something like $69? Gerry Wheeler, can you supply firm information?) -Antonio Romero romero@confidence.princeton.edu