True enough, in (my) potato there's no /bin/vi, although there are other
editors (ae and ed). In (my) woody there is, though: 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls /bin/vi
/bin/vi

(Not that I'd have the beginnings of a clue how to actually use ae or ed
if I were in that situation....)

ap

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On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Michael Marziani wrote:

> While I was replacing my vi with vim, I noticed that there is no /bin/vi
> at all, it's in /usr/bin.  I've never seen a distro without a /bin/vi;
> how do I edit my files when my /usr partition crashes?
> 
> Just curious if anyone has some insight into this.  I would rather think
> that I made a mistake than debian did something wrong.
> 
> -Mike
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