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From: keithe@tekgvs.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Who sells PC/VI?
Message-ID: <2168@tekgvs.TEK.COM>
Date: Thu, 19-Mar-87 16:50:34 EST
Article-I.D.: tekgvs.2168
Posted: Thu Mar 19 16:50:34 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 22-Mar-87 23:14:34 EST
References: <42900004@uicsrd> <413@qiclab.UUCP>
Reply-To: keithe@tekgvs.UUCP (Keith Ericson)
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Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR.
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In article <413@qiclab.UUCP> neighorn@qiclab.UUCP (Steven C. Neighorn) writes:
>In article <42900004@uicsrd> konigsfe@uicsrd.CSRD.UIUC.EDU writes:
>>I seem to have forgotten who sells PC/VI.  Could any of you netlanders
>>help me out.
>>
>
>PC/VI Full Screen Editor is sold by
>
>Custom Software Systems
>      P.O. Box 678
>   Natick, MA   01760
>      617-653-2555
>
>This program is a godsend for anyone who has to use both unix and
>msdos...

I agree, except that I recommend purchasing the MKS Toolkit from

	Mortice Kern Systems, Inc.
	43 Bridgeport Road East
	Waterloo, Ontario
	Canada  N2J 2J4
	519-884-2251

which contains not only vi, but a Korn-ish shell (did I really write
that?!), awk, sed, cpio, dd and much, much more. Price is in the
US$140 range.

I wouldn't be without the MKS stuff on a PC. And their license is
like Borland: use it on only one machine at a time and you've
complied with the license. 

And the documentation is superb! For example, I use the MKS man
pages to learn how to use awk and sed more efficently on our BSD
Unix system at work!

On a scale of 1 to 10 I give MKS a 9. They only lose 1 point because
I can't figure out how to send things to the printer without
invoking command.com - and staying there while the printer finishes.
(And that may be MY "rtfm" problem.)

keith (in no way associated with MKS, Inc.) ericson