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From: bob@osu-eddie.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: Public Domain VI
Message-ID: <3383@osu-eddie.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 23-Mar-87 00:33:52 EST
Article-I.D.: osu-eddi.3383
Posted: Mon Mar 23 00:33:52 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 29-Mar-87 09:27:39 EST
References: <3367@osu-eddie.UUCP>
Reply-To: bob@osu-eddie.UUCP (Bob Sutterfield)
Organization: The Ohio State University Dept of Computer & Information Science
Lines: 13
Keywords: VI
Summary: check GNU Emacs for an emulation

In article <3367@osu-eddie.UUCP> mcclure@osu-eddie.UUCP (James Edward McClure) writes:
>	Could someone please send me some pointers as to where I can
>     get a copy of a PD version of VI.

GNU Emacs, while not in the Public Domain in the strictest sense of
the term, has two major modes that emulate VI to varying degrees of
completeness.

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