Re: segfault in vi
I only know that I type 'vi' on the command line and - I've
just checked - 'which vi' tells me '/usr/bin/vi' but, hang on,
'ls -l /usr/bin/vi' tells me it's a symlink to
/etc/alternatives/vi and, hang on another sec, that is a symlink
to /usr/bin/nvi, which seems to be the final destination at
315248 bytes. So let me rephrase my question. Does anyone
know why nvi baulks at removing formatting mumbo-jumbo from
WordPad files?
David
On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 07:30:57PM -0400, dman wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 01:40:50AM +0200, David Jardine wrote:
> | I was trying to remove the formatting mumbo-jumbo of a MS WordPad
> | document in vi, but it segfaulted - repeatedly. Is there a
> | known reason for this?
>
> Uhh, vi is and copyrighted by AT&T and I don't think it is maintained
> anymore. You don't have it. Now which vi *clone* do you have
> installed? nvi? elvis? vim? I like vim the best -- it has a lot of
> really useful features and is very stable, not to mention extremely
> cross-platform. Try 'antiword' though -- it is really cool at
> rendering Word docs as plain text.
>
> HTH,
> -D
>
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