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In article <1992Sep29.025135.21101@leela.cs.orst.edu> mohrc@jacobs.CS.ORST.EDU 
writes:
>
>Where can one find vi for the ibm?

An IBM PC, you mean, running MS-DOS or PC-DOS?  Where I work, "an IBM'
means a mainframe. 

>I am new to the ibm world so anyone with
>pointers towards some good pd sites please email me! I am/have getting/gotten
>a 386/40 (DX) w/4 meg mem and 125M seagate.

I guess you do mean a PC.  4 megs of memory and a 125 meg hard disk
probably wouldn't hold the I/O system on a 390. 

>Any unix utils are great please
>let me know where to find them! also are there any good versions of unix for
>this type of ibm? (sorry i went waaay off the topic line ;[ )

There's a group called the Free Software Foundation which distributes a
number of Unix-like utilities as part of the "gnu" project ("gnu stands for
"gnu is not unix" - a bit self-referential).  Some of those utilities have
been ported to MS-DOS.  I have, for example, versions of grep, find, egrep,
head, tail, cat, cut, paste, diff, ls, cp, mv, and rm.  There are more, but
I didn't think I'd find them useful, so I didn't get them.

These programs are available in various places.  I got them through ftp
from iros1.iro.umontreal.ca, but that site seems to have stopped working.
They're also at wuarchive.wustl.edu in the /systems/msdos/gnuish directory.
If you don't have ftp, I think that there are instructions for mail access
in the news.newusers.questions FAQ list.  You can find other sites using
the "archie" utility, if your system has it.  (When the public-access
system I use announced that it was going to get ftp and telnet access, and
raise the rates, I though "What good is that going to do me?"  Lots of
good, it turned out.) 

As for vi clones, there are a couple.  I sometimes use one called "elvis",
but it's far from perfect.  For some things, it's still better than nothing
(what I really want is a public domain version of xedit, but with regular
expressions).  I haven't encountered anything better than elvis. 

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