From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 30 14: 0:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.aracnet.com (mail2.aracnet.com [216.99.193.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D59037B516 for ; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 14:00:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hamellr@aracnet.com) Received: from shell1.aracnet.com (shell1.aracnet.com [216.99.193.21]) by mail2.aracnet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA14451; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 14:00:18 -0700 Received: by shell1.aracnet.com (8.9.3) id OAA13320; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 14:00:25 -0700 Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 14:00:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Rick Hamell To: lex manno Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vi? lynx? please! In-Reply-To: <20000630110757.17110.qmail@web5404.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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? Because my good ol' 486 sitting under the bed acting as a router/firewall has the minimum installed on it. There are times when I want to surf the web to get documentation or such from that machine (or for that machine,) and Xwindows/Netscape just dosen't cut it. (Not that it's installed there anyways.) As for VI... well it's on every other Unix system. :) Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message