Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 11:13:05 -0500 From: GH <grasshacker@linkfast.net> 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: <20000701111305.B82072@linkfast.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006302032080.1666-100000@orthanc.dsl.gtei.net>; from res03db2@gte.net on Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 08:33:08PM -0700 References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0006301358420.10953-100000@shell1.aracnet.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006302032080.1666-100000@orthanc.dsl.gtei.net>
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On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 08:33:08PM -0700, some silly person named The Clark Family blurbed out > > 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. :) ...and it just happens to be the best damn editor around... <* duck...and cover...duck...and cover*> Dan Besides, Netscape is bloated (like almost every browser should be), and has almost never worked properly. Why use it unless I have to? > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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