Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!usc!apple!rutgers!mit-eddie!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!news.funet.fi!tukki.jyu.fi!jyu.fi!otto From: otto@tukki.jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: a strange problem with vi editor Message-ID: Date: 3 Oct 90 10:24:46 GMT References: <149@inews.intel.com> <5s8Dq2w163w@micasa.UUCP> <473@kaos.MATH.UCLA.EDU> Sender: news@tukki.jyu.fi (News articles) Organization: Turing Police, Criminal AI section Lines: 30 In-Reply-To: terry@julia.math.ucla.edu's message of 2 Oct 90 20:46:42 GMT In article <473@kaos.MATH.UCLA.EDU> terry@julia.math.ucla.edu (Terence J. McKiernan) writes: >ahegde@mipos2.intel.com writes: >> Hello there, >> i have a public domain `vi` editor for PC and it >> gives the following logo when invoked : >> ------------------- >> by Jim Goodnow II >> version 1.2 >> 7/11/85 >> (c) 1984, 85 Manx Software Systems, Inc. >> -------------------- >> There is a peculiar problem with this program. Its original size >> should be around 25-30K (it is a .exe file). Every time this >> program is invoked, ITS SIZE INCREASES BY exactly 1808 bytes. I will bet very large odds your PC is infected with the Jerusalem B virus, or one of its kin. JB modifies executables so that they increase in size with successive infections, generally by 1808 bytes (though I've seen 1807 and 1820 as well). Nothing about the viruses (I left the quotes in just to be sure), but... The vi program is distributed with the Manx Aztec C compiler nowadays, under the name 'z'. Are you QUITE sure this (oldish) version is PD ? You normally don't see (c)'s in PD programs... -- /* * * Otto J. Makela * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * */ /* Phone: +358 41 613 847, BBS: +358 41 211 562 (CCITT, Bell 24/12/300) */ /* Mail: Kauppakatu 1 B 18, SF-40100 Jyvaskyla, Finland, EUROPE */ /* * * Computers Rule 01001111 01001011 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * */