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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: vi under minix
Message-ID: <2911@ast.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 19 Jul 89 09:39:35 GMT
References: <1385@bruce.OZ> <62840001@hpl-opus.HP.COM>
Reply-To: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam
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In article <62840001@hpl-opus.HP.COM> walker@hpl-opus.HP.COM (Rick Walker) writes:
>There is a very good vi clone, called 'S' written by Webb Miller and
>presented in his book "A Software Tools Sampler" published by Prentice
>Hall.  

>The most interesting question is whether Webb Miller and Prentice Hall
>can be convinced to allow S to be distributed with MINIX or on the net.

I think that if you or someone else can port S to MINIX and make it robust,
that P-H would probably either (1) sell it as a separate product or
(2) allow me to include it with MINIX.  The remaining possibility
(suppressing it) is not likely, especially if they can sell it one way or
another.  If it is really good and the price is not unreasonable, they 
might sell a fair number.

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)