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From: kai@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: MS-DOS vi
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Date: 9 Sep 88 01:01:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu!kai    Sep  8 20:01:00 1988


There is a commmercial version of "vi" for MS/DOS sold by MKS (Morton Kern),
which we have on one PC, and plan to get for the other.  It works fine.  Look
for the ad in UNIX WORLD or UNIX REVIEW.   I've even seen it advertised by
The Programmers Shop software house in BYTE.  $70.  Their "vi" is included in
their MKS TOOLKIT, which is supposed to be 120 UNIX utilities (I didn't know
there WERE that many) written for MS/DOS for $130-$170, but I can't afford
that yet.

I've also got a copy of a program called free-vi, which seems to work, but
has the obnoxious problem of using MSDOS style commands instead of UNIX style
commands (ESCAPE clears a line, not ^U, END returns from input mode to
command mode, etc).  No source code available.


Patrick Wolfe  (pwolfe@kai.com, kailand!pwolfe)