On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 04:55:33PM -0600, John Galt 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.
Well, I got the "copyrighted" part right, just not the owner. | http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/kirkmck.html Interesting read. I had read, quite a while ago, that Thompson's sabbatical wsa in '70 and he rewrote Unix from scratch with Bil Joy. This articles has a different recollection. -D