[TUHS] screen editors

[Rudi Blom]

>Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2020 14:57:40 -0500.
>From: Doug McIlroy <>
>To: tuhs at tuhs.org, thomas.paulsen at firemail.de
>Subject: Re: [TUHS] screen editors
>Message-ID: <202001071957.007JveQu169574 at coolidge.cs.dartmouth.edu>
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>% wc -c /bin/vi bin/sam bin/samterm
>1706152 /bin/vi
> 112208 bin/sam
> 153624 bin/samterm
>These mumbers are from Red Hat Linux.
>The 6:1 discrepancy is understated because
>vi is stripped and the sam files are not.
>All are 64-bit, dynamically linked.

That's a real big vi in RHL. Looking at a few (commercial) unixes I get

SCO UNIX 3.2V4.2 132898 Aug 22 1996 /usr/bin/vi
 - /usr/bin/vi: iAPX 386 executable
Tru64 V5.1B-5 331552 Aug 21 2010 /usr/bin/vi
 - /usr/bin/vi: COFF format alpha dynamically linked, demand paged
sticky executable or object module stripped - version 3.13-14
HP-UX 11.31 748996 Aug 28 2009 /bin/vi
 -- /bin/vi: ELF-32 executable object file - IA64