From: kunst AT prl DOT philips DOT nl (Pieter Kunst)
Subject: Re: VI editor
To: dang AT cogit DOT ign DOT fr (Tuan Dang) (Tuan Dang)
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 93 16:44:00 MET
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Mailer: Elm [revision: 70.30]


Tuan DANG writes:
> 
> Could someone tell me if VI has been ported to MSDOS using DJGPP ?
> 

A commercial 'vi' for MS-DOS exists, from MKS.
The PD sources for a 'vi' clone called 'elvis' are avaible in netland.
These require the (UNIX) curses library which is available with DJGPP.
This DJGPP 'curses' library is not without problems, however. 

Pieter Kunst (kunst AT prl DOT philips DOT nl)