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Date:      Wed, 15 May 1996 20:02:22 -0700
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
To:        Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
Cc:        kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de, freebsd-current@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: /stand/ee 
Message-ID:  <6996.832215742@time.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 16 May 1996 12:32:42 %2B0930." <199605160302.MAA02161@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> 

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> Jordan K. Hubbard stands accused of saying:
> > 
> > And, FWIW, I don't even like `ee' all that much - it's NOT the most
> > intuitive of editors, it was simply both small and available.  People
> > keep suggesting `pico' to me, and it's what BSD/OS uses (so one could
> > almost sort of claim an attempt at compatibility), but I've never seen
> > it broken out of pine so I don't know how big it itself is.
> 
> cain:~>ls -l `which pico`
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 bin  bin  110592 May 19  1995 /usr/local/bin/pico

OK, that tells me a little something.. :-) I was actually referring to
"big" as in code size in this context, e.g. how much resistance would
I have to bringing it in.  At one .c and one .1 file (and the NLS
stuff), I felt pretty safe with ee. :-)

					Jordan



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