Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!ima!necntc!encore!paradis
From: paradis@encore.UUCP (Jim Paradis)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: stevie (vi clone) problems...
Keywords: vi, stevie
Message-ID: <3431@encore.UUCP>
Date: 3 Aug 88 15:50:30 GMT
References: <809@uhnix1.uh.edu> <984@xyzzy.UUCP>
Reply-To: paradis@encore.UUCP (Jim Paradis)
Organization: The Whizzo Chocolate Company
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In article <984@xyzzy.UUCP> rivers@dg-rtp.UUCP (Dave Rivers) writes:
>	I was wondering if anyone has been able to compile it, and if
>so, how did you do it?  I was initially interested in this for MINIX,
>but at the offset I was just trying to get it to compile on my SUN,
>or an MV (Running DG/UX - Data General's Sys V.3 clone)

Well, I have my stevie sources at home, so I'll e-mail you stevie.h
tonight.  But just let me take this opportunity to tell everyone that
stevie is a great little editor if you're a die-hard 'vi' user like
I am (it's part of my upbringing... the first unix shop I ever worked
for only supported vi).  Anyhow, the port went incredibly smoothly,
thus proving that you can indeed write portable unix software if you
try!  The only problem I have at all is the usual problem with limited
address space -- since stevie keeps the buffer in memory, you're limited
to editing files of less than 35Kbytes (just like mined 8-( ).

On that note, if anyone REALLY wants to do something useful for MINIX,
then let's define a large model image and come up with a large model
compiler!


-- 
Jim Paradis, Encore Computer
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