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From: jeff@gistdev.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: VI editor for the PC by Custom Soft
Message-ID: <8400005@gistdev>
Date: 23 Jan 89 05:14:00 GMT
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Nf-From: gistdev.UUCP!jeff    Jan 22 23:14:00 1989


>/* Written  2:02 pm  Jan 20, 1989 by hc.DSPO.GOV!neagley in gistdev:comp.sys.ibm.pc */
>A company called Custom Software Systems have(had?) a port of the UN*X 
>editor VI for the PC. I called the number that I had from an old ad,
>but the number has been disconnected with no new number given.
>
>Has this company gone out of business or  changed names?
>
>If Custom Software has gone away, does anyone know of another company
>that has Vi for the PC?

Custom Software Systems does have the BEST PC implementation of VI,
however, they are no more. 

A while ago, AT&T took them to court over two of their other products,
PC/TOOLS and PC/SPELL, but not for PC/VI.  Apparently, CSS used AT&T
source code for spell and many other UN*X tools in PC/TOOLS without paying
AT&T for them.  As a result, they paid AT&T an undisclosed amount and
ceased all operations. 

It is a pity because we have a site license for PC/VI which I feel is the
best port to the MS-DOS world available.  They even fixed "set
noerrorbells" so that it actually worked.  I hope that someone may buy
PC/VI from them in a bankrupcty deal and continue to work on it. 

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