In the last episode (Jan 25), Paul Hoffman said:
> At 1:36 AM +0000 1/26/03, Petersen wrote:
> >Paul Hoffman wrote:
> >> I'm kinda surprised this isn't in the FAQ (or at least not in a
> >> place that I could find it). It is really impossible to build a vi
> >> with no external dependencies that can be installed in /bin?
> >
> >What made you think it was impossible?
>
> The book "FreeBSD" by Anderson (which was highly recommended by some)
> says so on page 371. I'm glad to hear that's wrong.
One major problem is that without /usr, you have no termcap file. You
might want to install e3, which is only 13k statically linked and uses
generic ANSI escape codes so it doesn't need a termcap file. If run as
e3vi, it acceptes vi keystrokes.
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Dan Nelson
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