Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 23:49:24 -0400 (EDT) From: John <papalia@UDel.Edu> To: The Clark Family <res03db2@gte.net> Cc: Rick Hamell <hamellr@aracnet.com>, lex manno <lexmanno@yahoo.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vi? lynx? please! Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.05.10006302348230.18782-100000@copland.udel.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006302032080.1666-100000@orthanc.dsl.gtei.net>
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/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
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