From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 9 17:26:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from reiher.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de (wi4d22.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de [132.187.101.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BC1437B403 for ; Thu, 9 May 2002 17:26:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: by reiher.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 3FA5BAF52; Fri, 10 May 2002 02:26:17 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 02:26:17 +0200 From: Matthias Buelow To: Fernando Gleiser Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: an editor in /bin Message-ID: <20020510002617.GC21593@reiher.informatik.uni-wuerzburg> References: <200205081326.GAA02899@eskimo.com> <20020508102907.K32808-100000@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020508102907.K32808-100000@localhost> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Fernando Gleiser writes: >There is a problem: in single user mode, /usr may not be mounted. If /usr >is not mounted the terminfo database is not available and any curses-based >aplication (such like vi or ee) can't work properly. Since when does BSD use the terminfo db? Last time I looked, vi etc. were linked against termcap (or curses), which used the /etc/termcap file (unlike on System V, of course.) >That's why in /bin you have ed which is a line editor and not a full screen >one. I rather think ed is in /bin because it's always been there (and many programs and scripts and users expect it to be there.) --mkb To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message