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From: mfoley@infinet.com (Mark Foley)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: [FreeBSD] Crypt option for vi ?
Date: 11 Jun 1994 06:15:58 GMT
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Robert Sanders (rsanders@hrothgar.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?