Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 18:10:44 -0400 (EDT) From: Snob Art Genre <benedict@echonyc.com> To: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com> Cc: Mike <mike@seidata.com>, Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>, John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: the place of vi Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.980415180848.17256F-100000@echonyc.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980414080743.23505A-100000@shell.futuresouth.com>
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On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > What're you going to say to a poor non-hacker when their system fails to > mount their /usr partition, and you can just BARELY convince them that vi > is usable? "Here's a floppy with a statically compiled version of ee on it. I can understand not wanting to try to figure out vi when your system is blowing up, in fact, I keep a (static) copy of ee in /bin for that same reason." Ben "You have your mind on computers, it seems." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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