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From: silver@xrtll.uucp (Hi Ho Silver)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: vi source/ for msdos
Message-ID: <1990Nov11.003013.7270@xrtll.uucp>
Date: 11 Nov 90 00:30:13 GMT
References: <1990Nov6.192235.7630@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Reply-To: silver@xrtll.UUCP (Hi Ho Silver)
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In article <1990Nov6.192235.7630@nntp-server.caltech.edu> gwoho@nntp-server.caltech.edu (g liu) writes:
$is anyone interested in a real pd versiuon of ex/vi?
$is it likely that i would make much money with shareware if  i
$wrote one? (if i write one, i am pretty sure it will not run very fast on my 
$slow 286 machine, so i will want to get a faster one, besides, i want
$money).

   I'm sure there are people who are interested in vi for DOS, and
you might even be lucky enough to get a few registrations for it.  But
don't bother writing a shareware program unless you're going to benefit
enough from it to justify the time you spent writing it, because you're
very unlikely to get many registrations.

   BTW, you don't need a terribly fast machine for a well-written vi unless
a) you'll be doing a lot of wildcarded searches on large files
or
b) you're planning to use a hard disk to handle large files or the
   undo command (anyway, this requires a fast hard disk rather than a
   fast CPU).
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