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From: Gene Wilburn <njo@interlog.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject: Re: Betting on Unix
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 19:14:28 -0500
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J Wunsch wrote:
> You are probably right with some of your statements, but you err with
> one: vi is everything else than ``most simple''.  (No, you don't need
> to explain me vi in your followup.  I'm using it, as well as one or
> two other editors.)

vi is a kind of shibboleth.  If you can learn it, you can learn the rest
of Unix/Linux.  If not, it's off to Microsoft with ye.

Cheers, Gene

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Gene Wilburn, Toronto, ON, Canada  |  njo@interlog.com
Northern Journey Online: http://www.interlog.com/~njo/