From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 23 14:24:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA12538 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 23 Oct 1996 14:24:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA12386; Wed, 23 Oct 1996 14:23:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id XAA27634; Wed, 23 Oct 1996 23:21:49 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id XAA02031; Wed, 23 Oct 1996 23:21:49 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.6/8.6.9) id XAA27993; Wed, 23 Oct 1996 23:11:35 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199610232111.XAA27993@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: ex/vi version 1.79 now available for anonymous ftp. To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 23:11:35 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: committers@freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199610231633.MAA17569@mongoose.bostic.com> from Keith Bostic at "Oct 23, 96 12:33:47 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Keith Bostic wrote: > Version 1.79 of nex/nvi is now available. > > The changes in nvi 1.79 are almost entirely bug and compatibility fixes. > In particular, there was one large fix, to handle a complex use of the > global command I'd never seen before. :-) (Btw., the script that triggered this bug was from the Berkeley Pascal stuff. ;-) > Version 1.79 is available for anonymous ftp from the usual two sites. > > ftp.cs.berkeley.edu:ucb/4bsd/nvi-1.79.tar.gz > ftp.bostic.com:pub/nvi-1.79.tar.gz > > (The UC Berkeley site is likely to provide faster transfer speeds.) Our /usr/bin/vi is already a little rusty. I would really like it if somebody takes the stab and upgrades it. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)