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From: rusbara2@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Bob Rusbasan)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Elvis
Message-ID: <5118@sage.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: 15 Nov 90 09:26:40 GMT
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Reply-To: rusbara2@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Bob Rusbasan)
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In article <2278@sixhub.UUCP> davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
>  I *believe* the source to elvis was posted some time ago, and I noted
>that the documentation is unix docs. They are copyright, so I can't post
>them. 

prep.ai.mit.edu has the complete elvis package, so if you can ftp you
can get it from there.  The docs are *not* unix docs are far as I can
tell.  The "elvis.man" file is specifically about elvis, and it talks
about the MS-DOS port, difference between elvis and the "real" vi, etc.

Since the Gnu people have put it in the /pub/gnu directory, I assume 
they'd take out any copyrighted stuff.

For those who don't have ftp, how about the docs and source being posted?
That is, after all, what this group is for (OK, OK, so they're not
*binaries* -- do you want to strip out every ascii file in every package?).

There seems to be quite a bit of interest in this.  Someone posted the
docs to the discussion group, and people have said that that won't
be archived for obvious reasons.  Well, then let's have both the docs
and source posted to the "real" group because they SHOULD be archived
and it would just be silly to hold them back because of anger at the
"illegal" post to the discussion group.

There have been to many posts from people who have it and need the docs
to use it better (how do you do this?  what does this mean?  why is
it giving me this error?).  Someone posted that the binary seems to
be writing to the system area.  Obviously, that will concern a lot of
people.  By examing the source someone can find out what it's doing?
(Someone who's computer is, unlike mine, still working.)

To sum it all up, there is every reason to have an official post of
the docs and source of Elvis, and only a possible grudge to not have
it.  Everyone's always asking for a freeware vi, and I'd have to say
it's a tossup between Elvis and Jstevie (if you have a fast computer,
I'd have to give the nod to Elvis.  Jstevie's main virtue, and fault,
is that it only uses free memory to store the file being edited).
There has been a tremendous amount of interest in this, so let's not
let one "illegal" post stop the right thing from being done.

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