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From: gm@romeo.cs.duke.edu (Greg McGary)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Thanks for vi.arc, but....
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Date: 27 Jan 89 03:12:51 GMT
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In article <5188@homxc.ATT.COM> marty@homxc.ATT.COM (M.B.BRILLIANT) writes:
) I downloaded this to my PC and tried it out.  I like it.  It has (when
) ANSI.SYS is installed) the basic look and feel of the vi editor as
) implemented on UNIX(r) systems.  It's closer to the "real" vi than
) another version I tried before.  But I have a problem using it....

Don't waste any more of your valuable time on freeware vi-clones.
Spend ~$150 of your hard-earned money for the MKS toolkit and you'll be
in UNIX-heaven in the midst of DOS-hell.  You'll have a *real*
full-featured vi, awk, sed, ed, (e|f|)grep, yacc, and just about
anything else you could ever want(*) plus a real-live korn-shell with
aliases, history-editing, shell-functions, long (up to 5K) command-line
argument-lists and the ability to write shell-scripts with the hairiest
conglomerations of pipes and filters and subshells you can imagine.

The MKS-Toolkit is truly great.  I can't praise it enough--it has made
PC-life worth living.  (I have found some bugs, but they are few and minor)

(BTW, I have no connection with MKS, other than as a satisfied customer)

(*) Here's what you get in the MKS /bin:
awk	  banner    basename  c		cal	  cat	    cd	      chmod
cmp	  comm	    compress  cp	cpio	  ctags	    cut	      date
dd	  dev	    df	      diff	diff3	  dirname   du	      echo
ed	  egrep	    env	      expand	expr	  fg	    fgrep     file
find	  fmt	    fold      getopt	gres	  head	    help      jobs
join	  kill	    lc	      line	login	  ls	    mkdir     more
mv	  nl	    nm	      od	passwd	  paste	    pr	      prof
ps	  pwd	    rev	      rm	rmdir	  sed	    sh	      size
sleep	  sort	    spell     split	strings	  strip	    sum	      switch
sync	  tail	    tee	      test	time	  touch	    tr	      tty
uname	  uncompre  unexpand  uniq	unstrip	  vi	    wc	      which
who	  yacc

In addition, you get a rudimentary init(8) and inittab for launching
your TSR's and login(1).
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