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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!emory!cherry.atlanta.com!nntp.mindspring.com!nntp.mindspring.com!rsanders From: rsanders@mindspring.com (Robert Sanders) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: [FreeBSD] Crypt option for vi ? Date: 11 Jun 1994 17:52:25 GMT Organization: MindSpring Enterprises, Inc. Lines: 25 Message-ID: <RSANDERS.94Jun11135225@hrothgar.mindspring.com> References: <ROOT.94Jun4190435@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> <2t74dp$qa4@cleese.apana.org.au> <RSANDERS.94Jun10135921@hrothgar.mindspring.com> <2tbkqu$q4t@rigel.infinet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: msdem5.mindspring.com In-reply-to: mfoley@infinet.com's message of 11 Jun 1994 06:15:58 GMT In article <2tbkqu$q4t@rigel.infinet.com> mfoley@infinet.com (Mark Foley) writes: Robert Sanders (rsanders@mindspring.com) wrote: : [stuff irrelevant to this post deleted] : This is partially because of the inclusion of the new db library and : the new BSD curses library in nvi (neither of which are in the Linux : shared libraries). ... Excuse me, did you say "new BSD curses"? There was a short thread a while back cursing BSD curses because of its pitiful, brain-damaged, short-sheeted implementation. Is it true there is a new implementation? Does it suck not? Where is it? Um, well, I imagine it's in the libc from 4.4-lite and maybe even in FreeBSD/NetBSD. But I *know* it's in the nvi distribution, which is available from ftp.cs.berkeley.edu:/ucb/4bsd/nvi.1.11.tar.z. I don't know how much or whether it sucks, but I know that the older version of BSD curses in the Linux libc wasn't enough to satisfy nvi. It needed either the included new BSD curses or ncurses, so it looks like the new version incorporates some of the more useful SYSV features.