On Wed, 27 Jan 2021 08:20:50 -0800, Tom Brennan wrote: > ... I don't >remember a single complaint about vi from them. I did ask why (in the >world) they used it, and they said because it's always available by >default - no install needed. > I have been cautioned by old-timers that I should master 'ex' lest 'vi' be unavailable.
>... I used the editor that comes >with Microsoft Visual Studio on Win 10, with Samba setup to >automatically save the files from Windows over to the Linux box. .... > Similarly, I've kept most of my data on a Solaris server with a z/OS NFS client. ISPF 3.17 or vi ad lib. I set my Solaris locale to ISO8859-1. UTF-8 would have been a challenge. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
