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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!ira.uka.de!smurf.sub.org!nadia!aragon.stgt.sub.org!olorin!pilhuhn!hwr From: hwr@pilhuhn.ka.sub.org (Heiko W.Rupp) Subject: Re: elvis bug References: <1rr14f$t31@Germany.EU.net> <1993May1.204154.3399@coe.montana.edu> <hwr.736422092@snert.ka.sub.org> <C6Gt9F.17u2@austin.ibm.com> <1993May3.203033.3965@coe.montana.edu> Date: Tue, 4 May 1993 07:25:17 GMT Organization: The home of the Pilhuhn Message-ID: <C6HrA5.18u@pilhuhn.ka.sub.org> Lines: 16 nate@cs.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes: >>In article <hwr.736422092@snert.ka.sub.org>, hwr@snert.ka.sub.org (Heiko W.Rupp) writes: >>> >Because the real 'vi' is copyrighted software, and I don't want to pay >>> Hm, in the AT&T editing guide, they remark, that vi is (c) UCBerkeley. >>Hm... Does anyone know if it contains *any* AT&T code? >CSRG must have thought so. And, I believe someone is working on a free >vi for BSD4.4. (Not elvis, something new) Some people pointed me out, that vi is ucb, but as it contains code from ed(1), which ist (c) AT&T - so vi can't be given out in Source. -- Heiko W.Rupp Gerwigstr.5 7500 Kh'e 1 hwr@pilhuhn.ka.sub.org +49 721 693642 People who claim they don't let little things bother them have never slept in a room with a single mosquito.