larry@garfield.UUCP (Larry Bouzane) (10/24/87)
We have ported ex/vi v3.7 [from 4.3 BSD] to the IBM PC under MSDOS. It would be nice to post the sources to the relevant newsgroups but for obvious reasons we feel that this is not feasible. Instead we plan to post the diffs to the necessary files. Before doing this, we would like to know if this will cause problems? The ported version was tested on an IBM PC/AT running MSDOS version 3.00 using Microsoft C V4.00. We don't know if it will run under other C compilers, but there shouldn't be too many problems porting it. We have been using it here for several months and haven't had any problems that we haven't fixed (except one with the CRYPT (vi -x) stuff which has some problems with <CR><LF> mappings, but who uses -x anyway?). By the way, this is not for wimpy setups. The code takes about 300K when running and if you don't have a hard disk, you'd be wishing you did. Larry Bouzane larry@garfield.mun.cdn larry@garfield.uucp (or garfield!larry@uunet.uucp) larry@mun.bitnet Mike Rendell michael@garfield.mun.cdn michael@garfield.uucp (or garfield!michael@uunet.uucp) P.S. No, we won't send binaries (maybe someone else will, after it has been tested on a larger scale).
wheels@mks.UUCP (10/28/87)
In article <4084@garfield.UUCP>, larry@garfield.UUCP (Larry Bouzane) writes: > We have ported ex/vi v3.7 [from 4.3 BSD] to the IBM PC under MSDOS. > [.......] > By the way, this is not for wimpy setups. The code takes about 300K when > running and if you don't have a hard disk, you'd be wishing you did. > > Larry Bouzane larry@garfield.mun.cdn > Mike Rendell michael@garfield.mun.cdn You two are to be commended for completing such a big port. However, I'd like to point out that there are smaller versions of vi already available, with support. The MKS Vi is less than 90K, but includes all the features of its brethren. While I agree that any serious user should consider a hard disk, especially with the prices continuing to plunge, a 300K program is a bit large for those users with 360K floppies. -- ll // // ,'/~~\' Gerry Wheeler {decvax,ihnp4}!watmath!mks!wheels /ll/// //l' `\\\ Mortice Kern Systems Inc. (519) 884-2251 / l //_// ll\___/ 43 Bridgeport Rd. E., Waterloo, ON, Can. N2J 2J4 O_/
kyle@xanth.UUCP (Kyle Jones) (11/01/87)
In article <313@mks.UUCP>, wheels@mks.UUCP (Gerry Wheeler) writes: > We have ported ex/vi v3.7 [from 4.3 BSD] to the IBM PC under MSDOS. > ... > By the way, this is not for wimpy setups. The code takes about 300K when > running and if you don't have a hard disk, you'd be wishing you did. In article <4084@garfield.UUCP>, larry@garfield.UUCP (Larry Bouzane) responds: > ... a 300K program is a bit large for those users with 360K > floppies. But he didn't say the executable was 300K, he said that the program typically needs 300K of memory to run in, which is not the same thing at all. The memory requirements sound reasonable, since vi sessions on our VAX 11/785 running 4.3 BSD typically use 250-300K of virtual memory. kyle jones <kyle@odu.edu> old dominion university, norfolk, va usa