jeff@gistdev.UUCP (01/23/89)
>/* Written 2:02 pm Jan 20, 1989 by hc.DSPO.GOV!neagley in gistdev:comp.sys.ibm.pc */ >A company called Custom Software Systems have(had?) a port of the UN*X >editor VI for the PC. I called the number that I had from an old ad, >but the number has been disconnected with no new number given. > >Has this company gone out of business or changed names? > >If Custom Software has gone away, does anyone know of another company >that has Vi for the PC? Custom Software Systems does have the BEST PC implementation of VI, however, they are no more. A while ago, AT&T took them to court over two of their other products, PC/TOOLS and PC/SPELL, but not for PC/VI. Apparently, CSS used AT&T source code for spell and many other UN*X tools in PC/TOOLS without paying AT&T for them. As a result, they paid AT&T an undisclosed amount and ceased all operations. It is a pity because we have a site license for PC/VI which I feel is the best port to the MS-DOS world available. They even fixed "set noerrorbells" so that it actually worked. I hope that someone may buy PC/VI from them in a bankrupcty deal and continue to work on it. *-----* Jeff Johnson Global Information Systems Technology, Inc. 1800 Woodfield Drive Savoy, IL 61874 (217) 352-1165 INTERNET: jeff%gistdev@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu UUCP: {uunet,pur-ee,convex}!uiucuxc!gistdev!jeff "I said what I said, and my employer did not."