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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!torn!watserv2.uwaterloo.ca!watmath!undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca!bsdealwi From: bsdealwi@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (Brian de Alwis) Subject: Re: elvis bug Message-ID: <C6IFqB.DK8@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> Sender: news@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca Organization: University of Waterloo References: <1993Apr30.200643.3856@fwi.uva.nl> <1993May1.204154.3399@coe.montana.edu> <hwr.736422092@snert.ka.sub.org> Date: Tue, 4 May 1993 16:13:23 GMT Lines: 17 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. But it is based on the file-buffer code from AT&T ed(1). Hence the need for a license. I wouldn't mind seeing the AT&T-stripped source, but I suspect that it has been irrecoverably mangled and twisted into the vi code. -- Brian de Alwis - University of Waterloo: bsdealwi@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca `How extraordinarily lucky Minta is! She is marrying a man who has a gold watch in a wash-leather bag!' - _To_the_Lighthouse_, Virginia Woolf.