Date: Tue, 2 Jan 1996 16:27:24 -0500 From: "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> To: William Bulley <web@merit.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: which vi is used in FreeBSD 2.1 ?? Message-ID: <9601022127.AA18783@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <199601022053.PAA16382@ohm.merit.edu> References: <199601022053.PAA16382@ohm.merit.edu>
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<<On Tue, 2 Jan 1996 15:53:22 -0500 (EST), William Bulley <web@merit.edu> said: > Subject says it all. Some modern flavours of UNIX on PCs use > a less that true Bill Joy derived version of vi. Which version > if vi does FreeBSD use in 2.1 release? 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. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant
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