I only know that I type 'vi' on the command line and - I've just checked - 'which vi' tells me '/usr/bin/vi' but, hang on, 'ls -l /usr/bin/vi' tells me it's a symlink to /etc/alternatives/vi and, hang on another sec, that is a symlink to /usr/bin/nvi, which seems to be the final destination at 315248 bytes. So let me rephrase my question. Does anyone know why nvi baulks at removing formatting mumbo-jumbo from WordPad files?
David On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 07:30:57PM -0400, 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. > > HTH, > -D > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
