Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!yale!cmcl2!rna!marc
From: marc@rna.UUCP (Marc Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: VI editor for DOS ?
Message-ID: <173@rna.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jun 88 17:52:06 GMT
References: <780004@hpcea.CE.HP.COM>
Reply-To: marc@rna.UUCP (Marc Johnson)
Organization: Rockefeller University Neurobiology
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In article <780004@hpcea.CE.HP.COM> markb@hpcea.CE.HP.COM (Mark Biasotti) writes:
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>Is anyone aware of a "vi" type of editor for DOS based products? If
>such a product does not exist, what existing DOS based editor comes
>closest to vi? 
>  
>The reason I ask is because I like, and have become productive with, 
>the vi editor. I'm now having to investigate DOS applications and 
>don't like the "edlin" line editor.  

An excellent DOS version of VI is available from Custom Software Systems,
PO Box 678, Natick, MA 01760 for about $70.  PC-VI is complete and does
a few things even more nicely than the UNIX version.  There is also a stripped-
down version of VI called "Z" from Manx Software (I think it's shareware).
There are also several other good, fast DOS editors--most better suited
to the PC than VI--such as IBM's own Personal Editor II (PE II).

	-Marc Johnson
	 Rockefeller Univ.