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From: kxb@math.ksu.edu (Karl Buck)
Subject: Re: vi under Desqview -- is it possible?
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anderson@mips2.ma30.bull.com (Dave Anderson) writes:

[...]

>>     When VI attempts to run, the screen is blanked, and then the console 
>> starts beeping relentlessly as the cursor marches majestically across the
>> screen to the rhythm of the beeps.
> 
>>   My attempts:
>>      I have tried every option I could think of, including the keyboard
>> conflict numbers etc, but no luck.  VI will not run in Big Dos, nor in any
>> type of virtual window etc.  The results are always identical.
> 
>    Maybe we should create a support group here.  I got Desqview a few
>  weeks ago and had precisely the same problem.  I tried MKS vi, as well
>  as "calvin" (another freeware vi-clone) -- both by themselves, as well
>  as from Big DOS.  I eventually gave up trying, and for that reason never
>  use Desqview.  (What good is it if you can't bring up a simple editor?)
>  Windows 3.0 handles vi with no problem.

I have run Elvis 1.4 in dv with very little trouble. The only thing to watch
out for is to be sure you run dvansi.com before running the editor. I also
use the environment variable "set term = ansi" and use ansi.sys for the 
boot dos.
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Karl Buck 				email: kxb@hilbert.math.ksu.edu
Kansas State University		        Phone: 913.532.6750
Manhattan, KS 66506