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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
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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
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