<m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: > > You currently may have the vi source from aprox. 1979 under a 4 clause BSD > > license or the current Solaris vi under the CDDL. The latter was POSIX > > compliant approved. > > And so you assert that if you don't have a version of vi that is strictly > compatible with the 1979 source, and has no improvements or bugfixes, it's > not vi? Nobody forces you to use the 1979 version that is not 8 bit clean anyway. Recent vi versions of course have improvements and bug-fixes. BTW: I don't use vi as I am using my "ved" that is faster than vi. People who use the vi however complained that vim is not fully vi compatible and that they prefer to have a real vi under the name "vi". People who prefer vim could still call vim. Jörg -- EMail:joerg at schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin js at cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) joerg.schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily