pat@pyuxqq.UUCP (Pat M. Iurilli) (01/10/86)
A version of vi is now available that runs under MS-DOS. It's from
Custom Software Systems, P.O.Box 551 MO., Shrewsbury, MA 00545,
phone 617-842-1712 for $149.00. It is designed to run on an IBM PC or
compatible. It's about time!
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Pat M. Iurilli Bell Communications Research Piscataway, NJ
{allegra, ihnp4, topaz}!pyuxqq!patlyourk@ihlpm.UUCP (LORANY) (01/12/86)
> A version of vi is now available that runs under MS-DOS. It's from This should read: Vi is now available.... > Custom Software Systems, P.O.Box 551 MO., Shrewsbury, MA 00545, > phone 617-842-1712 for $149.00. It is designed to run on an IBM PC or > compatible. It's about time! > -- If you get this you should also get a different ANSI.SYS device driver. I have purchased PC/VI and found it to be like an ADM 3a at 9600 baud with the standard ANSI.SYS driver due to the lack of delete or insert line. I purchased the FCONSOLE.DEV driver that Custom Software Systems recommended from Hersey Micro in MI and re-did the termcap (added the delete/insert line capability) for the 'ibmpc' entry. The difference in speed is like night and day. I use PC/VI in conjunction with Turbo Lightning and it makes a GREAT editing system. PC/VI also works with a terminal off the serial port at 9600 baud; just update the termcap lib for it. PC/VI has all of the idiosyncrasies the UNIX version has so there is nothing to get use to except fast response. I imagine that PC/VI would work even faster with an AT. A final note, if you don't have a hard disk it will slow down tremendously due to temporary file allocation for 'undo' and the space for the support files it requires. Now if I could only get a COMPLETE version of memorandum macros, 'mm' for MS-DOS, I wouldn't want to get UNIX for my pc anymore! Loran Yourk AT&T Technologies ihnp4!ihlpm!lyourk W: 312-510-6885 Disclammier: I have no connection with the companies mentioned above except that I am an addicted user of their software products and without them my PC/XT would be an expensive toy.
rhc@ptsfa.UUCP (Robert Cohen) (01/13/86)
Laran,
Could you give a little more info about the FCONSOLE.DEV driver
or other alternatives. It would be most unpleasant to have a Vi
port to the PC only to find no insert/delete line functions.
Also, you mention termcap in your article. I was not aware there
was a termcap package available under MS/DOS. How much did the
extras required to get Vi functioning set you back? Suppliers?
Thanks,
Robert Cohen
San Francisco, California
{ihnp4,dual,qantel}!ptsfa!rhc
In article <654@ihlpm.UUCP>, lyourk@ihlpm.UUCP (LORANY) writes:
> If you get this you should also get a different ANSI.SYS device
> driver. I have purchased PC/VI and found it to be like an ADM 3a
> at 9600 baud with the standard ANSI.SYS driver due to the lack of
> delete or insert line. I purchased the FCONSOLE.DEV driver that
> Custom Software Systems recommended from Hersey Micro in MI and
> re-did the termcap (added the delete/insert line capability) for
> the 'ibmpc' entry. The difference in speed is like night and
> day....
>
> Loran Yourk
> AT&T Technologies
> ihnp4!ihlpm!lyourk
> W: 312-510-6885
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Robert Cohen
San Francisco, California
{ihnp4,dual,qantel}!ptsfa!rhcfarren@well.UUCP (Mike Farren) (01/14/86)
In article <1095@ptsfa.UUCP>, rhc@ptsfa.UUCP (Robert Cohen) writes: > Laran, > Could you give a little more info about the FCONSOLE.DEV driver > or other alternatives. FCONSOLE.DEV is an alternative to the IBM ANSI.SYS driver, and works pretty well. It's generally available on many IBM PC BBSes. -- Mike Farren uucp: {your favorite backbone site}!hplabs!well!farren Fido: Sci-Fido, Fidonode 125/84, (415)655-0667
grandi@noao.UUCP (Steve Grandi) (01/14/86)
PC/VI works on any MS-DOS machine and comes complete with MS-DOS
termlib routines (although the documentation isn't ready yet...).
I use it on my Ampro Little Board/186 driving a VT100 and all I had to
do was copy my Unix termcap entry over and it works fine. Since PC/VI
is a BIG program and uses temporary files, a hard disk would be nice;
but I have no real complaints with my floppy-based system.
Is PC/VI a straight port of Berkeley vi? I don't see any UCB
copyright information, but it sure looks and feels like UCB vi!
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Steve Grandi, National Optical Astronomy Observatories, Tucson, AZ, 602-325-9228
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