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From: larry@garfield.UUCP (Larry Bouzane)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Vi on MSDOS
Message-ID: <4084@garfield.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 23-Oct-87 20:11:38 EST
Article-I.D.: garfield.4084
Posted: Fri Oct 23 20:11:38 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 25-Oct-87 19:20:47 EST
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Organization: CS Dept., Memorial U. of Newfoundland, St. John's
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Keywords: vi, ibmpc, msdos, drugs, sex, kgb, counterfeit
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We have ported ex/vi v3.7 [from 4.3 BSD] to the IBM PC under MSDOS.  It
would be nice to post the sources to the relevant newsgroups but for
obvious reasons we feel that this is not feasible.  Instead we plan to
post the diffs to the necessary files.  Before doing this, we would like to
know if this will cause problems?

The ported version was tested on an IBM PC/AT running MSDOS version 3.00
using Microsoft C V4.00.  We don't know if it will run under other C
compilers, but there shouldn't be too many problems porting it.

We have been using it here for several months and haven't had any problems
that we haven't fixed (except one with the CRYPT (vi -x) stuff which has some
problems with <CR><LF> mappings, but who uses -x anyway?).

By the way, this is not for wimpy setups.  The code takes about 300K when
running and if you don't have a hard disk, you'd be wishing you did.

Larry Bouzane		larry@garfield.mun.cdn
			larry@garfield.uucp (or garfield!larry@uunet.uucp)
			larry@mun.bitnet

Mike Rendell		michael@garfield.mun.cdn
			michael@garfield.uucp (or garfield!michael@uunet.uucp)

P.S.  No, we won't send binaries (maybe someone else will, after it has been
tested on a larger scale).