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Date:      Thu, 23 May 1996 22:00:40 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Cc:        jehamby@lightside.com, coredump@nervosa.com, winter@jurai.net, chuckr@glue.umd.edu, freebsd-current@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: editors
Message-ID:  <199605231230.WAA08768@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <3273.832849573@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at May 23, 96 04:06:13 am

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Jordan K. Hubbard stands accused of saying:
> 
> > So in other words, if there is room on the boot disk for two editors, one 
> > of which being vi, what do you vote for as the second editor?
> 
> There is room on the boot disk for only one editor, actually.. :-(

Delete it then, and make more space.  You don't do any editing until _after_
you've installed stuff.  Just put (whatever editor) in /stand or /root/bin
or wherever in the bindist.

Speaking of which, the bindist should probably be non-optional.  (or
at least under 'virgin install' conditions)

> 					Jordan

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