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From: conklin@kaleida.com (J.T. Conklin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: elvis bug
Date: 3 May 93 15:42:45
Organization: Kaleida Labs, Inc., Mountain View, CA
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Message-ID: <CONKLIN.93May3154245@ngai.kaleida.com>
References: <1rr14f$t31@Germany.EU.net> <1993Apr30.200643.3856@fwi.uva.nl>
<1993May1.204154.3399@coe.montana.edu> <hwr.736422092@snert.ka.sub.org>
Reply-To: conklin@kaleida.com
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In-reply-to: hwr@snert.ka.sub.org's message of Mon, 3 May 1993 09:41:32 GMT
>>>Why not just use 'vi'? the REAL vi.. im sorry to say so..but to me
>>Because the real 'vi' is copyrighted software, and I don't want to pay
>>AT&T $100K U.S. for a license so I can use the 'Real vi'(tm).
> Hm, in the AT&T editing guide, they remark, that vi is (c) UCBerkeley.
ex, the command line portion of vi, contains bits and pieces of ed,
which is owned by AT&T. We can't get a "real" vi until someone
replaces the AT&T code with a free equivalent.
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