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From: romero@mind.UUCP (Antonio Romero)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Vi for the PC/XT
Summary: Are you sure about this?
Message-ID: <2555@mind.UUCP>
Date: 21 Jun 88 16:16:04 GMT
References: <4943@watcgl.waterloo.edu>
Distribution: comp
Organization: Cognitive Science, Princeton University
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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.

A few things:

	1) Mortice Kern Systems makes a thorough VI for the PC.  In fact, if
you're accustomed to the Unix environment, I'd suggest buying the entire MKS
Toolkit.  Not too expensive, and gives you almost everything you could want
to make you feel much more at home on the PC...  even a pretty good imitation
of the Korn Shell.
My only warnings: You will need a hard disk-- there's too many utilities to
fit comfortably on a floppy.  (Granted, you could collect the most commonly
used ones on one disk, but VI does a fair amount with temporary files, so
that would be slow too unless you had a ramdisk...
Also, on the PC (as opposed to an AT) VI is a little slow, as is command line
editing in the shell.

	2) There's a so-so VI imitation called "Z" included with most MANX
compilers.  VERY STRICTLY so-so imitation-- the simpler commands are there
but they left out a lot...

	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...

-Antonio Romero     romero@mirth.princeton.edu