'vi' is driving me crazy

Alan Jackson ajackson
Tue Dec 28 17:24:23 PST 2004


On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 10:42:05 -0500 (EST)
"A. Khattri" <ajai at bway.net> wrote:

> Learning vi is useful because vi runs on almost every platform known to
> man (even my PDA!) - so if I ever find myself (god forbid!) working in
> Solaris or AIX, I can still get stuff done. I even have vim/gvim available
> on my sole Windows box...

Years ago at a trade show, a friend went up to a terminal in the Cray booth
(back when Cray was a *big deal*) and typed "vi". Sure enough....


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