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From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Newsgroups: comp.editors,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: vi tutorial
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Date: 8 Jun 90 09:50:47 GMT
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In article <7586@pbhyf.PacBell.COM>,
	jwas@PacBell.COM (Joe Wasik) writes:
)From the users that we support and from new Unix users in general, we get many
)request for tutorials on vi.  Our printed copy has been photo-copied so many
)times, it's barely legible.
)
)Can anyone help by sending us the nroff/troff source to such a tutorial?
)While beggars can't be choosy, we prefer something formal, e.g.  a document
)written by vi's author or by AT&T.

The official BSD vi documentation can be retrieved through anonymous ftp
from star.cs.vu.nl (cd pub/maart):

	Vi-BSD-doc.1
	Vi-BSD-doc.2
	Vi-BSD-doc.3

These files contain ^G characters, so use binary mode.
The files are redistributable under the terms of the copyright notice they
contain.
Also present:

	vi.ref		- Vi Reference
	vi.ref.nl	- Dutch variant
	macro-guide	- a guide to vi macros
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