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From: venta@otello.sublink.org (Paolo Ventafridda)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: is it possable to mget any money if i write a version of vi?
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Date: 14 Nov 90 12:07:53 GMT
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In article <14607@neptune.inf.ethz.ch>, wyle@inf.ethz.ch (Mitchell Wyle) writes:
> ...not as nice as Maarten's guide...

Yum yum... now i'm curious!
> 
> stevie, elvis, jstevie1.3 are already here.  Other authors have the jump on
> you.

I beg your pardon - i'm probably wrong - but once upon a time, about
2.5 seconds-CPU (Cray XMP) ago [which is ~3 years ago for my old Atari
micro ;-) ] there was a 'stevie' program around. It looked like a 
good VI clone, but not like a WP. These *stevie* you are talking about
have advanced features? 

> I also often wish vi had !}fmt built-in.  I may add paragraph
> formatting to jstevie1.3 in a few months.  
sigh. I just wish i had "fmt" on the 3b2; ah, but next machine will
be a 386, which is not a 'mini', so it will probably be good for
something else than crunching i/o.
Here's something to make you laugh a bit. Time ago, in W.Germany, 
a friend of mine was showing me it's fabulous Unix 286.
He was trying to compile ELM 2.0, running the Configure script.
"You see, this is a real UNIX...not a xenix." etc.etc. ;-)
So the Configure starts, and on the screen there comes out
"..it's not eunice.."
"..it's not xenix..."
"..it's not unix ..."
"...hey, this is a CRAY!"
While i was down on the ground laughing, i thought that probably
the Micropork 286 unix was the hardest system to compile software on.
Nowadays i'm not so sure; i've been trying to compile aberMUD II
on the 3b2 without any success (it dumps core) since friday. 
The Readme says that the software "will compile on any machine with
a CPU inside" (hehe) but they forgot to add "except 3b2s".
The approach to compile pd software here is now "it won't work, but
let's see if today we're lucky" ;-(
So i wonder if stevie would compile here, also.


> Ciao,  -Mitch

Ciao e grazie, Paolo

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