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From: kevin@kombat.acadiau.ca (Kevin Swan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject: Re: Betting on Unix
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Date: 3 Mar 97 23:01:57 GMT
Organization: Acadia University
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Thomas LeRoy Nobu Carlyle (tlc8126@ibm.net) wrote:
: I have personally tried to learn "vi" on my Linux installation, but have
: more fun sticking to Emacs.


dragon:/usr/local/depot> du -s emacs-19.29/
50782   emacs-19.29
dragon:/usr/local/depot> which vi
/bin/vi
dragon:/usr/local/depot> ls -l /bin/vi
-r-xr-xr-x   5 bin      bin       234272 Oct 25  1995 /bin/vi*
dragon:/usr/local/depot>

50 megs versus 234Kb.  'Nuff said.  :)

Kev. (a vi user)

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Kevin Swan						 BCSH
kevin@kombat.acadiau.ca		 	    Acadia University
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