Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!tektronix!reed!elbaum
From: elbaum@reed.UUCP (Daniel Elbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Problem with AVI
Keywords: can't malloc??
Message-ID: <9944@reed.UUCP>
Date: 5 Aug 88 07:45:59 GMT
References: <993@tellab5.UUCP>
Reply-To: elbaum@reed.UUCP (Daniel Elbaum)
Organization: Reed College, Portland OR
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In article <993@tellab5.UUCP> grj@tellab5.UUCP (Gary Jenkins) writes:
>Has anyone gotten the recently posted "avi" to work?  I only get the
>"can't malloc" error message, which I assume means there is...

avi prints "can't malloc" when it can't open the filename given as
a command-line argument.

My favorite deficiencies are:

	-^d/^u reversed (somebody already mentioned this)
	-no more that one file may be worked on at a time
	-ZZ doesn't work
	-'H', 'L' and 'M' are unimplemented  (cursor home,
	 cursor to beginning of bottom line, and cursor to
	 beginning of middle display line).
	-won't take a 'rc' file (for startup configuration)
	-won't wrap lines

But I've gotta say that vi is a hard program to port, and much
harder to reverse engineer (I'm not sure which the author did),
and some of vi's most difficult but most useful features are
properly implemented (buffers, for example).  It'll be a great
editor when most of the glaring problems are fixed.  Is source code
available?

fully implemented.  If a version ever comes out which 

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