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From: Richard Kettlewell <richard@greenend.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
Date: 23 Jun 1997 00:27:05 +0100
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Jim Reid <jim@pc37.mpn.cp.philips.com> writes:

>If they've never even read the vi manual, then the obvious
>conclusions can be drawn.

That they picked up as much as they needed to know about it by some
other means, perhaps?  Manuals aren't the only way of learning a piece
of software, though they are a good one.

I'm not going describe how I pronounce "vi", so that no-one's
judgement of my opinions can be affected by it.  I really don't think
it's that important.

-- 
Richard Kettlewell               http://www.elmail.co.uk/~richard/