18 Mar
2003
18 Mar
'03
6:26 a.m.
On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 11:18:15AM -0800, Michael Sokolov wrote:
I am trying to russify my flagship UNIX
(4.3BSD-Quasijarus) and I'm adding/
fixing 8-bit support in various parts of the system, and I got stuck on ex/vi.
The sucker just won't handle 8-bit chars. Since my job is to maintain Ancient
UNIX (my flavor thereof) rather than replace it, replacing the original ex/vi
with one of the modern reimplementations is not an option. I need to massage
8-bit support into the existing original Berkeley ex/vi with as few changes as
possible.
A friend of mine told me that Back in The Days the first UNIX users in the then
USSR were running patched (russified) 2.xBSD on Soviet PDP-11s and had KOI-8
for Russian. Since the flagship editor on <any>BSD is ex/vi, this makes me
think that those early Russian users used it and thus their patches
accomplished just what I need. And so I'm looking for those patches. TIA for
any help,
MS
I have a thing called Demos in a hidden section of the archive, which is
a modified 7th Edition (plus other things?) from Russia. I've hidden it as
the legal status is unclear :-) I'm happy to hand it out to individual
requestors, though. However, I can't find a vi(1) in there:
/usr/Hidden_PUPS/Miscfiles/Russian: du -a | grep vi
1 ./cmd/TUVWXYZ/vipw.sh,v.gz
1 ./cmd/comint/Environment/README.gz
2 ./cmd/comint/Environment/termcap.gz
2 ./cmd/comint/Environment/tuner.gz
3 ./cmd/comint/Environment/minihelp.DEMOS.gz
9 ./cmd/comint/Environment
1 ./cmd/uucp/L-devices.gz
11 ./sys/dev/RCS/video.c,v.gz
6 ./sys/dev/RCS/vikey.c,v.gz
7 ./sys/dev/video.c.gz
1 ./sys/include/video.h.gz
3 ./sys/stand/libsa/RCS/video.c,v.gz
2 ./sys/stand/libsa/video.c.gz
and a grep on `ex' gives nothing either.
Warren