excludes vi in standard

Moderator, John Quarterman std-unix at ut-sally.UUCP
Thu Jan 15 11:59:57 AEST 1987


From: lazear at mitre-gateway.arpa (Walt Lazear)
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 87 21:59:04 EST

The Berkeley Mail program used to construct this message calls
"vi" from within.  Then again, ANY program ca be caled from within
another program, via the "exec*" system call, so what's the big
deal about "vi"???

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