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- From: Dave@usppc.abb.com
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Re: vi editor needed
- Message-ID: <9211051351.AA14997@usppc.abb.com>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 13:51:16 GMT
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- Get Elvis from any of a number of FTP sources. You will have
- to compile Elvis using your favorite C compiler. Someone
- may have a binary version available. I got the sources from
- DEC Corporate Research as described below. The end result
- is a little too big to mail in one piece. I don't have a
- working vax mailer for big stuff like the Elvis .exe file.
-
- Try ftpmail@gatekeeper.dec.com. Send a mail message with the
- word HELP as the body. ftpmail will return instructions. The
- server has a facility to inquire about a specific program such as
- elvis.
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- Elvis is a good vi impersonation. We use it over telnet connections
- because we have yet to figure out how to get EDT or EVE to work
- with strange PC and Sun Type 4 keyboards with much different
- function key layouts.
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- Frequent sightings of elvis are made in our Edison office. Young
- folks raised on UNIX prefer it over the native editors.
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- You may need your friendly system administrator's help to install
- elvis. You may add the "vi" and "view" commands to your process
- command tables using your system login.com script. We have avoided
- putting a lot of stuff of this sort in systartup_v5.com.
-
- Dave Hamby Dave.Hamby@usppc.abb.com
- ABB Power Plant Controls
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