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Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 09:11:11 +1000
From: Leath Muller <leathm AT gbrmpa DOT gov DOT au>
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To: Fred Smith <fredex AT fcshome DOT stoneham DOT ma DOT us>
CC: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: New User : Vi
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> VI will never be ported to DOS, it is part of the Unix (formerly AT&T)
> code base and is not available.

Please don't make comments when you aren't completely sure they are
true.
In this case, your just plain wrong... A guy here ported the source code
available from the DEC's at his Uni to DOS using DJGPP... I don't how
(or why) but he did......

> But there are several good clones (workalikes) of vi available, the
> three most popular being VIM, Elvis, and VILE. The one I use most (I use
> it as my standard editor at work (on SCO Unix and Windoze95) and at home
> (on Linux and DOS), is Elvis. Elvis is up to version 2.0 with a beta
> test version 2.1h currently available. (I use 2.1h everywhere, have no
> problems with it).  Elvis can be obtained from:

I recommend vim personally, especially gvim (GUI vim) if your running
windows.