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From: peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Grow your own VI (Re: AVI editor)
Message-ID: <2424@sugar.uu.net>
Date: 10 Aug 88 12:40:35 GMT
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Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston, TX
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I'm sure you all know whereof VI originated... there was this little editor
named ED. ED was a surprisingly powerful editor, and is still the best line
editor around. These crazy guys at Berkeley added steroids and before you knew
what was going on, there was VI.

Well, it seems that there's this group of loonies out called the Software Tools
Group. They have this wonderful idea that the UNIX tools are GOOD THINGS in and
of themselves, and that other operating systems would benefit from having them
around. Their bible is a book called Software Tools, by Kernighan and Plauger.
In Software Tools is the complete source to a large subset of ED, including the
regular expression code. It's in Fortran, but Pascal and 'C' code for it also
exists.

Perhaps this would be prime time for someone to take it and add steroids. This
would produce a *real* public domain VI...

For your edification, the copyright notice from my copy of "ED" in 'C':

/*
 * Copyright 1987 Brian Beattie Rights Reserved.
 *
 * Permission to copy and/or distribute granted under the
 * following conditions:
 *
 * 1). No charge may be made other than resonable charges
 *      for reproduction.
 *
 * 2). This notice must remain intact.
 *
 * 3). No further restrictions may be added.
 *
 */

I'm not up to doing this job... it's going to be a big one, no doubt about it,
and I've got enough on my plate right now... professionally, as a hobbyist,
and personally. I'll mail anyone who wants to give it a try a copy, though...
-- 
		Peter da Silva  `-_-'  peter@sugar.uu.net
		 Have you hugged  U  your wolf today?