28 Nov
2006
28 Nov
'06
7:28 p.m.
Hi. Has anyone managed to compile a version of the original BSD vi under
Linux? I'm looking from something from the 4.3 to 4.4 vintage sources.
I made a stab at the Open Solaris version of vi, but could only get so
far.
Thanks,
Arnold Robbins
28 Nov
28 Nov
7:37 p.m.
Aharon Robbins <arnold(a)skeeve.com> wrote:
Hi. Has anyone managed to compile a version of the
original BSD vi under
Linux? I'm looking from something from the 4.3 to 4.4 vintage sources.
<http://ex-vi.sourceforge.net/>
I made a stab at the Open Solaris version of vi, but
could only get so
far.
I also have a Linux port of OpenSolaris vi, but it is
unreleased. The main issue is that it requires their
version of curses.
Gunnar
7:42 p.m.
Hi. Has anyone managed to compile a version of the
original BSD vi under
Linux? I'm looking from something from the 4.3 to 4.4 vintage sources.
Have you tried http://ex-vi.sourceforge.net ?? The README states:
Welcome to the ex/vi port!
==========================
This implementation is derived from ex/vi 3.7 of 6/7/85 and the BSD
termcap library, originally from the 2.11BSD distribution. All of them
were changed to compile and run on newer POSIX compatible Unix systems.
Support for international character sets was added, including support
for multibyte locales (based on UTF-8 or East Asian encodings), and some
changes were made to get closer to the POSIX.2 guidelines for ex and
vi. Some issues that were clearly bugs and not features have also been
resolved; see the Changes file for details.
I haven't tried building it on Linux, but they claim wide platform
portability
--lyndon
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software that conforms to OSI standards. The OSI stamp is important
because it assures corporate users that the networking software will
easily connect to other vendors systems and software.
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8:22 p.m.
Lyndon Nerenberg scripsit:
I haven't tried building it on Linux, but they
claim wide platform
portability
I can't say how it works as a 'vi', because I am an 'ex'
troglodyte.
As an 'ex', it works fine under Linux (much better than 'vim' does),
and
in fact I am editing this very reply with it. The definition of INSTALL
in the Makefile (there is no configure script) is '/usr/ucb/install',
which needs to be changed to just 'install'.
It also builds and runs excellently under Cygwin with the above
change plus removing the 'size' command from the Makefile, which is
not necessary.
--
John Cowan cowan(a)ccil.org http://ccil.org/~cowan
If I have seen farther than others, it is because I am surrounded by dwarves.
--Murray Gell-Mann
7:52 p.m.
On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Aharon Robbins wrote:
Hi. Has anyone managed to compile a version of the
original BSD vi under
Linux? I'm looking from something from the 4.3 to 4.4 vintage sources.
I made a stab at the Open Solaris version of vi, but could only get so
far.
Thanks,
Arnold Robbins
http://ex-vi.sf.net
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