From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 2 13:27:32 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA11472 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 2 Jan 1996 13:27:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA11464 for ; Tue, 2 Jan 1996 13:27:26 -0800 (PST) Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; (5.65/1.1.8.2/19Aug95-0530PM) id AA18783; Tue, 2 Jan 1996 16:27:24 -0500 Date: Tue, 2 Jan 1996 16:27:24 -0500 From: "Garrett A. Wollman" Message-Id: <9601022127.AA18783@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: William Bulley Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: which vi is used in FreeBSD 2.1 ?? In-Reply-To: <199601022053.PAA16382@ohm.merit.edu> References: <199601022053.PAA16382@ohm.merit.edu> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk < 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