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From: leisner@arisia.Xerox.COM (Marty Leisner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Thanks for vi.arc, but....
Message-ID: <581@arisia.Xerox.COM>
Date: 28 Jan 89 19:54:05 GMT
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Reply-To: leisner@arisia.UUCP (Marty Leisner)
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In article <13234@duke.cs.duke.edu> gm@romeo.UUCP (Greg McGary) writes:
>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

I also like the MKS tookit and use it.  But the vi I found most useful 
was the Custom Software Systems version (no longer sold) which runs via
termcap so it supports running over a com port (which is what I often do).

marty leisner
leisner.henr@xerox.com