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From: gregg@ihlpb.ATT.COM (Wonderly)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs,comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: TPU VI bugs
Message-ID: <8830@ihlpb.ATT.COM>
Date: 3 Oct 88 01:34:16 GMT
References: <25210@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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From article <25210@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA>, by mkhaw@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA (Mike Khaw):
] Has anyone else tried to compile the VMS TPU VI code posted recently
] in comp.sources.misc?  I found some obvious errors that were easy to fix:
] in a couple of .COM files the symbol definition of "do" omitted the
] logical symbol VI$ROOT; and in the created file VI.TPU, there were 4
] lines that contained a bogus "a" in column 1.
] 
] Apart from that, things seemed to configure and compile, etc., OK, but
] when I fired up vi, there were lots of mode-line error messages about
] parameters being of the wrong type, and finally some message about being
] unable to create a keymap buffer.  Worse, all keystrokes resulted in
] a rectangular blob on the screen (in each character position) and more
] complaints about parameter types and key mappings.  I couldn't even exit
] from vi.

Although not obvious, it should have been stated that the version of VI
posted to comp.sources.misc was for VMS 5.0 and later.  If you need VI
for versions prior to that you will have to find it elsewhere.  Due to
compatability issues it is just not feasible to support both versions.

Gregg Wonderly
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