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From: psrc@pegasus.ATT.COM (Paul S. R. Chisholm)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: vi-like editor for the IBM PC
Summary: Bye, bye, PC/VI
Keywords: vi
Message-ID: <2639@pegasus.ATT.COM>
Date: 28 Feb 89 15:02:28 GMT
References: <688@nvuxl.UUCP> <37364@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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<"Would you like me to summon Data so he could offer a few dozen synonyms?">

In article <37364@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>, nolan@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu
(Michael C. Nolan) suggests a software package that's no longer
available:
> Custom Software Systems P.O. Box 678, Natick, MA 01760 (617)
> 653-2555 makes PC/VI (tm) which behaves exactly like vi as far as is
> possible under DOS.  It seems to work fine and comes with a complete
> vi manual, which finally tells me how my unix vi works.

Um, yes, they did, and people were very pleased with how similar it was
to the version of vi running under the UNIX(R) operating system.  A
while back, AT&T brought CSS to court, not for violating "look and
feel", but for using AT&T source code for their PC/SPELL and PC/TOOLS
products without licensing that code.  AT&T and CSS settled out of
court (the arrangement was never made public, and I never heard what it
entailed).  Shortly thereafter, CSS ceased operations.

Try Mortice Kern Systems, 35 King St. North, Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
N2J 2W9, uunet!mks!inquiry, 519-884-2251.  Their MKS Toolkit (awk, ksh,
vi, and more than a hundred other reimplementations of UNIX(R) system
tools) is $199.  MKS VI alone is $149.  This software is also available
via Programmer's Connection (a mail order firm), 7249 Whipple Avenue
NW, North Canton, Ohio, USA  44720, 800-336-1166 (voice, USA),
800-225-1166 (voice, Canada), 216-494-3781 (voice, everywhere else),
216-494-5260 (FAX).  They charge $179 for the Toolkit, and $135 for
vi.

>nolan@hiips.lpl.arizona.edu;   ...!noao!solpl!hiips

Paul S. R. Chisholm, AT&T Bell Laboratories, att!pegasus!psrc
psrc@pegasus.att.com, AT&T Mail !psrchisholm
I'm not speaking for the company, I'm just speaking my mind.  I have no
connection to MKS or Programmer's Connection except as a customer.