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From: wheels@mks.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Vi on MSDOS
Message-ID: <313@mks.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 28-Oct-87 11:12:01 EST
Article-I.D.: mks.313
Posted: Wed Oct 28 11:12:01 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 30-Oct-87 19:48:58 EST
References: <4084@garfield.UUCP>
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Waterloo, Ont.
Lines: 22
Keywords: vi, ibmpc, msdos
Xref: utgpu comp.sources.d:1350 comp.sys.ibm.pc:8143
Summary: 300K!! For a vi??

In article <4084@garfield.UUCP>, larry@garfield.UUCP (Larry Bouzane) writes:
> We have ported ex/vi v3.7 [from 4.3 BSD] to the IBM PC under MSDOS.
> [.......]
> 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
> Mike Rendell		michael@garfield.mun.cdn

You two are to be commended for completing such a big port.  However,
I'd like to point out that there are smaller versions of vi already
available, with support.  The MKS Vi is less than 90K, but includes all
the features of its brethren.  While I agree that any serious user
should consider a hard disk, especially with the prices continuing to
plunge, a 300K program is a bit large for those users with 360K
floppies. 

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