on Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 04:55:33PM -0600, John Galt (galt@inconnu.isu.edu) wrote: > On Sun, 26 Aug 2001, 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. > > Uhhh, no. vi was written and copyrighted by UCB. In fact, it was part of > 2BSD, which also included termcap. > > http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/kirkmck.html Specifically, by Bill Joy. Currently at Sun. One of the founders, in fact. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html
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