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vi editor for DOS

#3428
From: Edward R Sova
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 13:59
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>>Where can one find vi for the ibm?
>
>>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
>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
>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. 
>
I have a vi clone for dos called stevie.  Never used it yet.  Supposedly a port
from (atari) ST. vi c
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