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To: lex manno <lexmanno@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: vi? lynx? please!
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lex manno wrote:
> 
> hi there,
> 
> Well, I've been using FBSD for almost a year now and I
> was wondering. Isn't it about time to remove primitive
> stuff like vi and lynx from the o.s.?
> 
> I mean, when there are editors like Joe and Emacs and
> browsers like Netscape, why do we need to keep all
> these antiquated monsters?
> 
> For God's sake, let us modernize!

If you have to administer a remote system via a 300 Bd phone line,
you'll be glad those "ancient" tools exist. I keep dropping into ed or
ex, if the line is too slow to redraw a terminal screen within 10
seconds, too.

If you want to modernize: fine. Add them new kinks. But keep that good,
ol', proven stuff. You'll need it sometime.

Just my $.05
-Christoph Sold


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