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From: Stephen McKay <syssgm@devetir.qld.gov.au>
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To: Andreas Klemm <andreas@knobel.gun.de>
cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, syssgm@devetir.qld.gov.au
Subject: Re: Nvi alpha version 1.57 now available.
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Andreas Klemm <andreas@knobel.gun.de> wrote:

>On Mon, 18 Mar 1996, Keith Bostic wrote:
>
>> Alpha version 1.57 of nex/nvi is now available for anonymous ftp from
>> ftp.cs.berkeley.edu:ucb/4bsd/nvi.ALPHA.1.57.tar.gz, or alternatively,
>> from bostic.com:pub/nvi.ALPHA.1.57.tar.gz.
>
>Should be added to the ports collection first ... if there isn't 
>any other taker, I'll prepare the port and send it to Satoshi.
>
>Or should it go directly into the main -current source tree after 
>a short period of testing ?

I think it's still a little bit under baked.  I fetched 1.57 yesterday
and under Solaris 2.3 'cw' doesn't work (it executes the replacement text
as commands!), and under BSD/386 1.1, cursor positioning is sometimes
random.

These couple instant oddities made me shelve 1.57 and return to 1.56 (which
has a sluggish flavour, but otherwise works).  If I manage to track down
the underlying bugs (there were a lot of compiler warnings about char vs
unsigned char, for example), I'll let Keith know.

Stephen.