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From: gsen@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (george sawyer easton)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: vi like editor for IBM pc
Message-ID: <1078@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 21-Jan-87 01:09:49 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 21 01:09:49 1987
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In article <903@uwmacc.UUCP> edwards@uwmacc.UUCP (mark edwards) writes:
>
> I finally broke down and bought a pc for myself,  ..........
>
>  Are there any public domain, or comercial "vi" or "vi like"
> editors available ?
>
> Thanks
> mark
>-- 
>    edwards@unix.macc.wisc.edu
>    {allegra, ihnp4, seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!edwards
>    UW-Madison, 1210 West Dayton St., Madison WI 53706

I've used two, and both seem to be excellent products.
The first is PC/VI by Custom Software Systems (P.O. Box 678,
Natick, MA 01760; ph. 617-653-2555). As far as I can tell,
this is a complete implementation of vi with excellent
documentation. Very likely you will learn more about vi
from PC/VI's documentation than from any Unix manuals I've seen.
Vi is much more powerful than many people are aware.

The second vi I've used comes as part of the MKS (Mortice
Kern Systems, 43 Bridgeport Road East, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
N2J 2J4; ph 519-884-2251) toolkit, which includes a korn shell
and a bunch of utilities including vi, more, grep, sed, awk, etc.
I've only had this software for a week or so, and I will never
go back to command.com. The vi seems to be complete, and I haven't
had any problems with it yet. The documentation is Unix-style.
This package seems really nice to me so far, although I haven't
have it long enough to detect subtle problems.

I think both products sell for about $140, but it would be a good
idea to call.

George S. Easton
University of Chicago
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