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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>
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Organization: Cognitive Science, Princeton University
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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