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From: Graham Broadbridge <grahamb@peachy.apana.org.au>
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: 9 Mar 1997 07:15:10 GMT
Organization: The Peachy Linux Node!
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In comp.os.linux.misc Douglas Seay <seay@absyss.fr> wrote:

: heaven is linux with vi and perl.

Linux does not have 'vi'  vi is a UNIX utility that is licensed.

The best that linuxers have is vim 'which is vi improved' or elvis (which
is symlinked to vi).

Real vi used less than 50k of disk on a *statically linked* system.

Graham.
(using 'vim' on a linux system at the moment :-)
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