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From: rone@bofh.noc.best.net (Ron Echeverri)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x,alt.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,gnu.misc.discuss,comp.unix.solaris
Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Date: 26 Jun 1997 12:48:57 -0700
Organization: fidgety systems administrators gmbh
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References: <5kd2ng$c8b$1@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de> <5nrdh7$5p@sylph.u-net.com> <x7206261di.fsf@pc37.mpn.cp.philips.com> <5os7n0$ai@sylph.u-net.com>
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In article <5os7n0$ai@sylph.u-net.com>, Badvoc <badvoc@sylph.u-net.com> wrote:
>In article <x7206261di.fsf@pc37.mpn.cp.philips.com>, Jim Reid wrote:
>>badvoc@sylph.u-net.com (Badvoc) writes:
>>> I though everyone pronounced "vi" as "vye" and "cp" as "copy".
Actually, most people don't.
>>Only the people who don't really know what they are doing. And DOS
>>users. (Same thing I suppose.) To quote from the vi manual: "vi -
>>pronounced vee-eye".
>As far as I'm aware the vi manual is not freely available.
From the UNIX User's Supplementary Documents (USD) for 4.4BSD:
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USD:11-2 An Introduction to Display Editing with Vi
1. Getting started
This document provides a quick introduction to vi. (Pro-
nounced vee-eye.) You should be running vi on a file you are
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rone
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