From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 22 15:42:50 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 081C616A7D4 for ; Mon, 22 May 2006 15:42:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DC5843D45 for ; Mon, 22 May 2006 15:42:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.13.6+Sun/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k4MFgixO004623; Mon, 22 May 2006 11:42:44 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.13.6+Sun/8.13.6/Submit) id k4MFgiQF004622; Mon, 22 May 2006 11:42:44 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200605221542.k4MFgiQF004622@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: bill@wiliweld.com (Bill Schoolcraft) Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 11:42:44 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL7] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: none none , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MESS X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 15:42:56 -0000 > > At Mon, 22 May 2006 it looks like Jerry McAllister composed: > > > Yup. It is in /usr/bin > > I guess, I am so used to putting a copy of vi in /bin shortly after > > installing a new system that I assume it is always there. > > > > Can we actually 'de-install' then 're-install' vi(m) from PORTS with > it statically compiled? > > Then we can move it to /bin (?) You don't really need to de-install it. Just cp /usr/bin/vi /bin/. Make sure you are happy with the permissions. It will work. vi is pretty well self contained. ////jerry > -- > Bill Schoolcraft | http://wiliweld.com > > "If your life was full of nothing but > sunshine, you would just be a desert." > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >