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From: T.E.Dickey
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 1995 00:00

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Barry Lee (blee@shell01.ozemail.com.au) wrote:
: Hey There,
: 
:        I'm after some kind of documentation on vi. I have Linux 1.2.1 
: and the man pages on vi seem to be somewhat lacklustre.
you're (presumably) talking about elvis, which is installed on linux as
'vi'. Elvis, vim and vile all have documentation -- with their source.
Vim has a vi-oriented online help; vile's is mostly differences from 'vi'.
Elvis's documentation is mostly in the source distribution.

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey
dickey@clark.net

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