From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 30 20:49:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from copland.udel.edu (copland.udel.edu [128.175.13.92]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B9ED37B5A7 for ; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 20:49:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from papalia@UDel.Edu) Received: from copland.udel.edu (copland.udel.edu [128.175.13.92]) by copland.udel.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA29118; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 23:49:24 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 23:49:24 -0400 (EDT) From: John To: The Clark Family Cc: Rick Hamell , 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 /usr/ports/www/lynx apparently had the "forbidden" tag lifted off of it a few weeks back (when I built it at the time). Lynx-ssl still has the tag though.... > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message