abeles@mhuxm.UUCP (abeles) (07/10/84)
Does anyone know whether decent editors, especially those available on UNIX like vi or even ed are available for the IBM PC? I would like to download/ upload files to UNIX and massage them offline, but the PC doesn't appear to have the nice editors I'm addicted to, or even anything like them. -Joe Abeles Bell Communications Research Murray Hill, NJ
ec120x@sdccsu3.UUCP (07/11/84)
Quadtraton is supposed to have almost ready, their Q1 program which is supposed to run both on MSDOS machines and on UNIX mainframes. The claim is that the same commands can be used on both a pc and a Unix based mainframe. I hope to get a copy of it for test purposes and should know more about it in three to five months. A colleague of mine swears by XYWRITE as a great PC editor, but it is not compatible with Unix as Q1 is supposed to be.
rowan@convex.UUCP (07/16/84)
#R:mhuxm:-16400:convex:56500003:000:744
convex!rowan Jul 16 04:06:00 1984
I recently downloaded Robert Dewar's visual editor, dved, and find it
to be excellent. It is a screen editor with all features of vi that I
use most often (no, you can't pipe a buffer through a pipe but come
on!). I have used it mostly as a program editor but it also has
limited word processing capabilities. I find the function key and
keypad orientated commands easier to use the WordStar's control
character format. Dved has an excellent help facility embedded in the
.exe file and it will print its own manual. As you can tell I am sold
and the price was right, FREE! I downloaded dved from a local BBS.
You might try the ones in your area.
Steve Rowan
Convex Computer Corp.
{allegra,ihnp4,uiucdcs,ctvax}!convex!rowan
(214)669-3700