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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!europa.clark.net!news.msfc.nasa.gov!news.ingr.com!nik.b29.ingr.com!nik From: nik@nik.b29.ingr.com (Nik Simpson) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy Subject: Re: Betting on Unix Date: 25 Feb 1997 15:24:05 GMT Organization: Intergraph Computer Systems. Lines: 19 Message-ID: <5ev06l$stq@news.ingr.com> References: <5d3sr2$44n@nntp1.best.com> <330B2333.38B6@to.me.please> <5ehglc$lef@innocence.interface-business.de> <330CE8E4.6AF0@interlog.com> Reply-To: ndsimpso@ingr.com NNTP-Posting-Host: nik.b29.ingr.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:161032 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2608 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy:54558 comp.os.os2.advocacy:269767 In article <330CE8E4.6AF0@interlog.com>, Gene Wilburn <njo@interlog.com> wrote: >J Wunsch wrote: >> You are probably right with some of your statements, but you err with >> one: vi is everything else than ``most simple''. (No, you don't need >> to explain me vi in your followup. I'm using it, as well as one or >> two other editors.) > >vi is a kind of shibboleth. If you can learn it, you can learn the rest >of Unix/Linux. If not, it's off to Microsoft with ye. Or, you learn vi for 15 years on UNIX and then get a copy for NT, there are numerous ports for NT! Vi rulz! -- |--------------------------------------------------| | Nik Simpson Mail : ndsimpso@ingr.com | | Intergraph Computer Systems | |--------------------------------------------------|