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Date:      Wed, 11 Jun 1997 09:28:26 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        token@wicx50.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de (Matthias Buelow)
Cc:        msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: REQ: help from Emacs/XEmacs/Jove/Jed/... users
Message-ID:  <199706102358.JAA12508@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <199706101736.TAA28819@wicx21.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de> from Matthias Buelow at "Jun 10, 97 07:36:34 pm"

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Matthias Buelow stands accused of saying:
> > If I thought TurboVision could be used to make a small 'edit' like editor,
> > I'd suggest _that_ as much better again.
> 
> I only remember Turbo Vision from olde DOS days and I also remember that
> it produced the fattest binaries (statically linked) that I've seen from
> a DOS library.  A small hello-world proggy and you could watch it include
> > 100K lines and dumping a binary that was over 250K in size.  I don't

OK, scratch that idea then 8)

> expect it too be much smaller in the Unix world, you still have to keep
> the TV library around (not very good for boot disks), although I haven't
> looked at the Unix implementation of TV so far (I detest it).

Fair enough.  Any suggestions for an alternative?

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