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From: nate@cs.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Subject: Re: elvis bug
Message-ID: <1993May3.203033.3965@coe.montana.edu>
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References: <1rr14f$t31@Germany.EU.net> <1993May1.204154.3399@coe.montana.edu> <hwr.736422092@snert.ka.sub.org> <C6Gt9F.17u2@austin.ibm.com>
Date: Mon, 3 May 1993 20:30:33 GMT
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In article <C6Gt9F.17u2@austin.ibm.com> guyd@austin.ibm.com (Guy Dawson) writes:
>In article <hwr.736422092@snert.ka.sub.org>, hwr@snert.ka.sub.org (Heiko W.Rupp) writes:
>> nate@cs.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes:
>> >>Why not just use 'vi'? the REAL vi.. im sorry to say so..but to me
>> 
>> >Because the real 'vi' is copyrighted software, and I don't want to pay
>> >AT&T $100K U.S. for a license so I can use the 'Real vi'(tm).
>> 
>> Hm, in the AT&T editing guide, they remark, that vi is (c) UCBerkeley.
>
>Hm... Does anyone know if it contains *any* AT&T code?

CSRG must have thought so.  And, I believe someone is working on a free
vi for BSD4.4.  (Not elvis, something new)


Nate
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