Re: where's man ??
Boris Beletsky wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Sep 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> dwarf>If you only installed the base system then the only editor
> dwarf>availabe is AE (Andrews Editor). This was done because AE is
> dwarf>small enough to fit on the base disks.
> I am sorry, but isn't vi designed for that purpose?
Maybe it was, but vi, as all good, small programs, suffers from
"creeping featurism", and the result:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 23624 Sep 4 18:27 /bin/ae
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 67969 Mar 9 1996 /bin/ed
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 179360 Jul 25 12:23 /usr/bin/pico
-rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 292428 Aug 10 20:18 /usr/bin/nvi
-rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1906900 Aug 28 17:24 /usr/bin/emacs
For comparison, Slackware has:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root bin 97644 May 22 15:45 /usr/bin/elvis
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root bin 200944 Aug 7 1995 /usr/bin/vim
Enough said?
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