Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!njin!princeton!mind!romero 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 Lines: 27 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