Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 20:33:08 -0700 (PDT) From: The Clark Family <res03db2@gte.net> To: Rick Hamell <hamellr@aracnet.com> Cc: lex manno <lexmanno@yahoo.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vi? lynx? please! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006302032080.1666-100000@orthanc.dsl.gtei.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0006301358420.10953-100000@shell1.aracnet.com>
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Last time I looked, the lynx port looked like it has been devalued. Something about too many security holes. [RC] On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Rick Hamell wrote: > > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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