[TUHS] vi in v7

[Warner Losh]

On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 8:47 AM Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com> wrote:

> 2BSD was the BSD for V7.  It was >>not<< a 'distro' as 3.0 and later
> 2.XBSD became.   It is just a set of programs and kernel patches that were
> built up at UCB.  This was the way different sites released things in those
> days.  The "read me" files should tell you what is there and you pick the
> binaries (if you have them)  and install them as is and/or recompile from
> the makefiles on a case by case basis.
>

2.8BSD is the first one I've seen with a bootable tape (though i've not
booted it).

The other caveat with BSD software was it may have made assumptions about
being on a Berkeley unix system by default and may need some help.

Though having said that, I'd give it a try...

Warner


> Clem
>
> On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 10:35 AM Will Senn <will.senn at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On another front. I know I've asked this before in v6, and possibly
>> related to v7, but I can't find the notes anywhere. vi doesn't come with
>> v7. So, has anybody put it on v7 in simh? I saw a thread sometime back
>> where vi on v7 wasn't the main topic, where Warren? I think it was, said
>> he'd done it and it was "easy." I don't suppose there are any notes laying
>> around telling how this might be accomplished?
>>
>> I do see vi in 2bsd.tar, I don't suppose there is a  'how to install 2bsd
>> on v7" note around either?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Will
>>
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