gwoho@nntp-server.caltech.edu (g liu) (11/07/90)
a while ago i asked about a free version of vi for msdos. this is what i found. a reasonable p.d. version of vi is stevie. i found it at 16.1.0.2. is anyone interested in a real pd versiuon of ex/vi? is it likely that i would make much money with shareware if i wrote one? (if i write one, i am pretty sure it will not run very fast on my slow 286 machine, so i will want to get a faster one, besides, i want money). gwoho liu
silver@xrtll.uucp (Hi Ho Silver) (11/11/90)
In article <1990Nov6.192235.7630@nntp-server.caltech.edu> gwoho@nntp-server.caltech.edu (g liu) writes:
$is anyone interested in a real pd versiuon of ex/vi?
$is it likely that i would make much money with shareware if i
$wrote one? (if i write one, i am pretty sure it will not run very fast on my
$slow 286 machine, so i will want to get a faster one, besides, i want
$money).
I'm sure there are people who are interested in vi for DOS, and
you might even be lucky enough to get a few registrations for it. But
don't bother writing a shareware program unless you're going to benefit
enough from it to justify the time you spent writing it, because you're
very unlikely to get many registrations.
BTW, you don't need a terribly fast machine for a well-written vi unless
a) you'll be doing a lot of wildcarded searches on large files
or
b) you're planning to use a hard disk to handle large files or the
undo command (anyway, this requires a fast hard disk rather than a
fast CPU).
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maxim@subch.imp.com (Maxim Samo) (11/24/90)
silver@xrtll.uucp (Hi Ho Silver) writes:
[about vi under DOS]
$ dosdir c:dos/vi.exe
VI EXE 71760 9-08-88 1:09p
no further comment needed....
-Maxim
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