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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." 


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