On Sun, 26 Aug 2001, dman wrote: >On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 01:40:50AM +0200, David Jardine wrote: >| I was trying to remove the formatting mumbo-jumbo of a MS WordPad >| document in vi, but it segfaulted - repeatedly. Is there a >| known reason for this? > >Uhh, vi is and copyrighted by AT&T and I don't think it is maintained >anymore. You don't have it. Now which vi *clone* do you have >installed? nvi? elvis? vim? I like vim the best -- it has a lot of >really useful features and is very stable, not to mention extremely >cross-platform. Try 'antiword' though -- it is really cool at >rendering Word docs as plain text.
Uhhh, no. vi was written and copyrighted by UCB. In fact, it was part of 2BSD, which also included termcap. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/kirkmck.html >HTH, >-D > > > -- There is an old saying that if a million monkeys typed on a million keyboards for a million years, eventually all the works of Shakespeare would be produced. Now, thanks to Usenet, we know this is not true. Who is John Galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED], that's who!