From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 2 15:08:51 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA18295 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 2 Jan 1996 15:08:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from ncd.com (firewall-user@welch.ncd.com [192.43.160.250]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA18290 for ; Tue, 2 Jan 1996 15:08:48 -0800 (PST) Received: by ncd.com; id PAA14629; Tue, 2 Jan 1996 15:35:33 -0800 Received: from z-code.z-code.com(192.82.56.21) by welch.ncd.com via smap (g3.0.1) id xma014618; Tue, 2 Jan 96 15:35:29 -0800 Received: from zolaris.z-code.com (zolaris.z-code.com [192.82.56.41]) by z-code.z-code.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id PAA02856; Tue, 2 Jan 1996 15:06:49 -0800 Received: by zolaris.z-code.com (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA26863; Tue, 2 Jan 1996 15:04:37 -0800 From: "Ulf Zimmermann" Message-Id: <9601021504.ZM26861@zolaris.z-code.com> Date: Tue, 2 Jan 1996 15:04:36 -0800 In-Reply-To: William Bulley "Re: which vi is used in FreeBSD 2.1 ??" (Jan 2, 16:46) References: <199601022146.QAA17078@ohm.merit.edu> X-Mailer: Z-Mail (3.2.0 06sep94) To: William Bulley , wollman@lcs.mit.edu (Garrett A. Wollman) Subject: Re: which vi is used in FreeBSD 2.1 ?? Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Jan 2, 16:46, William Bulley wrote: > Subject: Re: which vi is used in FreeBSD 2.1 ?? > According to Garrett A. Wollman: > > > > The `vi' that Bill Joy wrote was derived from the source code to the > > `ed' that belonged (at the time) to Ma Bell. You would have to pay a > > large amount of money to the current owners of that source code (I > > think it's still Novell) to buy a source license. Nope. It is not Novell anymore. It is SCO (Santa Cruz Operatingsystems) > > Thanks! > > So, whose (or which) vi wannabe is part of FreeBSD 2.1? > > Regards, > > web... > >-- End of excerpt from William Bulley Ulf. -- Ulf Zimmermann, NCD Software, 101 Rowland Way, Suite 300, Novato, CA 94945 phone: 415-899-7941, email: ulf@z-code.ncd.com, phone-home: 510-865-0204 ====================================== FreeBSD 2.1.0 is available now! -------------------------------------- FreeBSD: Turning PCs into Workstations ======================================