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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!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!fido.news.demon.net!demon!msn-9-16.binc.net!not-for-mail From: wlewis@mailbag.com (William A. Barnett-Lewis) 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: Wed, 05 Mar 1997 03:15:09 GMT Organization: Brain Candy Computing Message-ID: <857531709.6661.1@msn-9-16.binc.net> References: <5d3sr2$44n@nntp1.best.com> <5ehglc$lef@innocence.interface-business.de> <330EF0FF.55CE@to.me.please> <5esial$eit@innocence.interface-business.de> <5esunl$9bv@web.nmti.com> <3313B49A.2B42@ibm.net> <331b5865.0@131.162.2.91> NNTP-Posting-Host: msn-9-16.binc.net X-NNTP-Posting-Host: msn-9-16.binc.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.8 (beta 2) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII Lines: 32 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:162721 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2711 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy:55631 comp.os.os2.advocacy:271614 In article <331b5865.0@131.162.2.91>, kevin@kombat.acadiau.ca says... >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. :) Yup...when the makefile's done I can save 234k ... ;> >Kev. (a vi user) > >-- >Kevin Swan BCSH >kevin@kombat.acadiau.ca Acadia University > How's my posting? Call 1-800-DEV-NULL >** Fatal Error [1]: 'Win95' virus detected on /dev/hda1; Formatting ... Emacs, Allegro Common Lisp, and 32 mb of core under Linux - that's heaven. -- William A. Barnett-Lewis wlewis@mailbag.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- "We are artists. Poets paint motion and light. Historians paint stills. It can be dangerous to get history from a poet. It can also be the greatest blessing." -------------------------------------------------------------------------