From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 30 20:34:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtppop2.gte.net (smtppop2pub.gte.net [206.46.170.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 497C437BAE3 for ; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 20:34:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from res03db2@gte.net) Received: from evrtwa1-ar4-146-005.dsl.gtei.net (evrtwa1-ar4-146-005.dsl.gtei.net [4.34.146.5]) by smtppop2.gte.net with ESMTP ; id VAA8883608 Fri, 30 Jun 2000 21:42:15 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 20:33:08 -0700 (PDT) From: The Clark Family X-Sender: res03db2@orthanc.dsl.gtei.net To: Rick Hamell Cc: lex manno , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vi? lynx? please! In-Reply-To: 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 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