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To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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Hi again,

On Apr 27, 4:55=A0pm, Rugxulo <rugx DOT  DOT  DOT  AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
>
> On Apr 26, 3:29=A0am, "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_h DOT  DOT  DOT  AT havenone DOT cmm> wrote:
>
> > The VI clone for DOS that I'm using is called ELVIS. =A0(I believe you'=
re
> > aware of it. =A0I've mentioned it a few times here.) =A0It appears to b=
e version
> > 1.8. =A0Version 2.1 is available for DOS and Win32:http://web.cecs.pdx.=
edu/~kirkenda/

Actually, his page isn't correct, latest is 2.2 (circa 2003).

> Well, 32-bit is usually a lot faster, but it's indeed larger code.
> Elvis is great, but apparently the author never bothered using a 32-
> bit DOS compiler (ahem, DJGPP), so the 2.1 version is horribly
> useless, IMHO, because it runs out of memory *extremely* fast (esp.
> when calling help)! So yes, I can (barely) see why you use the older
> 1.8 version (less bloated). Last I contacted the author a few years
> ago, I asked him why, and it seemed to be more of a "have no time"
> issue than anything. EDIT: Even VIM has dropped the 16-bit DOS .EXE in
> latest 7.2. =A0 :-(

I just now noticed that Elvis/Win32 works under Japheth's latest HX! I
swear I tried a year or so back, and it bombed out horribly, so this
must be a fairly new fix (probably unrelated but still ... good news!).