From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 21 11:20: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from srv2.elexir.co.za (srv2.elexir.co.za [216.0.53.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A926D37B423 for ; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 11:20:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from elexir.co.za (srv1.elexir.co.za [196.15.169.10]) by srv2.elexir.co.za (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id UAA33620 for ; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 20:21:00 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from raff@ElectroCity.com) Received: (qmail 10658 invoked from network); 21 Aug 2000 18:19:45 -0000 Received: from libretto.electrocity.com (HELO flash.ElectroCity.com) (216.0.53.100) by srv1.elexir.co.za with SMTP; 21 Aug 2000 18:19:45 -0000 Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20000821201505.00c29350@127.0.0.1> X-Sender: mr@pobox.co.za/196.2.146.7@127.0.0.1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 20:19:15 +0200 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Michael Raff Subject: Re: Are vi and nvi the same thing? In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG vi and nvi have the same inode numbers ( ls -i nvi ) so they point to the same single copy of the program (hard linked). man nvi tells it all. Regards Michael At 08:10 PM 8/21/00, you wrote: >Hi, >Are vi and nvi the same thing? Their size is the same. If so, why have a >copy of the same program in a different name? > >Thanks, Adam >________________________________________________________________________ >Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message