From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 2 13:38:02 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA12434 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 2 Jan 1996 13:38:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from merit.edu (merit.edu [35.1.1.42]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA12404 for ; Tue, 2 Jan 1996 13:37:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from ohm.merit.edu (ohm.merit.edu [198.108.60.65]) by merit.edu (8.6.12/merit-2.0) with ESMTP id QAA22292; Tue, 2 Jan 1996 16:37:21 -0500 From: William Bulley Received: (web@localhost) by ohm.merit.edu (8.6.9/8.6.5) id QAA17078; Tue, 2 Jan 1996 16:46:43 -0500 Message-Id: <199601022146.QAA17078@ohm.merit.edu> Subject: Re: which vi is used in FreeBSD 2.1 ?? To: wollman@lcs.mit.edu (Garrett A. Wollman) Date: Tue, 2 Jan 1996 16:46:43 -0500 (EST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <9601022127.AA18783@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> from "Garrett A. Wollman" at Jan 2, 96 04:27:24 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk According to Garrett A. Wollman: > > The `vi' that Bill Joy wrote was derived from the source code to the > `ed' that belonged (at the time) to Ma Bell. You would have to pay a > large amount of money to the current owners of that source code (I > think it's still Novell) to buy a source license. Thanks! So, whose (or which) vi wannabe is part of FreeBSD 2.1? Regards, web... -- William Bulley, N8NXN Senior Systems Research Programmer Merit Network Inc. Domain: web@merit.edu 4251 Plymouth Road MaBell: (313) 764-9993 Ann Arbor, Michigan 48105-2785 Fax: (313) 747-3185