From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 27 16:26:44 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id QAA15165 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 27 Mar 1995 16:26:44 -0800 Received: from dg-rtp.dg.com (dg-rtp.rtp.dg.com [128.222.1.2]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id QAA15159 for ; Mon, 27 Mar 1995 16:26:43 -0800 Received: by dg-rtp.dg.com (5.4R2.01/dg-rtp-v02) id AA04962; Mon, 27 Mar 1995 19:26:04 -0500 Received: from lakes (lakes [192.96.3.39]) by ponds.UUCP (8.6.9/8.6.5) with ESMTP id KAA25822 for ; Sat, 25 Mar 1995 10:30:55 -0500 Received: (from rivers@localhost) by lakes (8.6.9/8.6.9) id KAA16990 for freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com; Sat, 25 Mar 1995 10:50:13 -0500 Date: Sat, 25 Mar 1995 10:50:13 -0500 From: Thomas David Rivers Message-Id: <199503251550.KAA16990@lakes> To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Slick-edit on FreeBSD - any takers? Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As it happens, the marketing person for Slick-Edit (a popular PC editor) comes to my house every thursday (we started a piano quintet..., but I digress.) Interestingly enough, she was telling me that Linux is now one of their most popular operating systems. I imagine a lot of DOS/Windows people are moving to Linux... Anyway, I put in a plug for FreeBSD. She indicated that it was the position of the company to port SlickEdit to any operating system where they had a request. Personally, I'm a 'vi' bigot from way back; but I thought it would be good exposure for FreeBSD, etc... (You may notice they list Linux in some of the SlickEdit adds in Dr. Dobbs, etc...) So, I would like a show of hands of people who would consider purchasing this, etc... - Dave Rivers - p.s. The Linux port doesn't use X - they just hired someone to do that work for them... So, the initial FreeBSD version would probably be curses, etc... p.p.s. Send me mail (ponds!rivers@dg-rtp.dg.com for now) and I'll try and tally this up. However, I have 2400+ pieces of mail (it's a long story) so things might get lost. If you *really* would like to see this, call the microEdge directly, at 1-800-934-EDIT (that's the Sales line) and let them know.