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From: caromero@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (C. Antonio Romero)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: sdespeerately looking for editor
Message-ID: <4948@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 18 Dec 88 21:59:24 GMT
References: <459@infohh.rmi.de> <511@acadch.UUCP>
Reply-To: caromero@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (C. Antonio Romero)
Organization: Princeton University, NJ
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In article <511@acadch.UUCP> rudolf@curano.UUCP (Rudolf Kuenzli) writes:
>In article <459@infohh.rmi.de> shimoda@infohh.rmi.de (Markus Schmidt) writes:
>>I am looking desperately for a VI-like editor for the IBM-PC.
>>If anyone knows a PD or a commercial product, please let me know!

>One of the VI's I know is named PC/VI and comes from
> Custom Software Systems - P.O.Box 678 - Natick, MA 01760

I thought CSS had run into major copyright problems or something-- something
abou AT&T source used in a lot of their products.  My impression was that this
product was no longer on the market.

Now, I almost hate to say this, because I know ten thousand others 
are going to also, but...
The MKS Toolkit offers a very nice, very complete VI re-implementation,
along with about 100 other UNIX System V utilities, at a pretty fair price.
My favorite tools were probably the ksh re-implementation and the awk interpreter.
The shell had some problems with Novell networks, but apart from that was pretty
reliable and very faithful to the original.

Send e-mail to mks!toolkit or look in any programmer-oriented publication
that pays much attention to PC's for their ads.

I don't use their products anymore, I changed jobs and now have a real machine
(Sun-3 -- well, okay, sort of real) on my desk... ;-)
-Antonio Romero      romero@confidence.princeton.edu