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From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Invisible Ascii with VI
Message-ID: <4828@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 10-Oct-87 11:15:59 EDT
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Posted: Sat Oct 10 11:15:59 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 12-Oct-87 21:34:14 EDT
References: <258@unx1.UUCP> <469@devon.UUCP> <8807@mimsy.UUCP> <250@hobbes.UUCP>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
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As quoted from <250@hobbes.UUCP> by root@hobbes.UUCP (John Plocher):
+---------------
| +---- chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes in <8807@mimsy.UUCP> ----
| | Of course, this could be a bug in other versions of vi.  (At this
| | very moment, I am running `Version 3.7, 6/7/85'---so says `:ver'.)
| 
| The "vi" distributed by Microport is `Version 3.9, 2/9/83'.  Strange,
| when was the timewarp?  (ps, the pattern above works ok, as well as
+---------------

No timewarp; Version 3.7 is the latest termcap-based version (at least, for
non-Berkeley sites), Version 3.9 is the latest terminfo version.  The two
develop independently of each other, so comparing version numbers and dates
doesn't work.
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