Re: placement of vi in the filesystem

1999-09-06 Thread Ben Rosengart
On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Adrian Filipi-Martin wrote: > On the other hand I built a static nvi and put it in /tmp with a > copy of termcap and set the TERMCAP variable. With only / mounted, nvi did > just fine, and it only took 460592 and 188100 bytes for the static nvi and > termcap respectivly.

Re: placement of vi in the filesystem

1999-09-06 Thread Ben Rosengart
On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Adrian Filipi-Martin wrote: > On the other hand I built a static nvi and put it in /tmp with a > copy of termcap and set the TERMCAP variable. With only / mounted, nvi did > just fine, and it only took 460592 and 188100 bytes for the static nvi and > termcap respectivly

Re: placement of vi in the filesystem

1999-09-05 Thread Adrian Filipi-Martin
On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Ben Rosengart wrote: > I'm sure this is old ground, but could anyone please tell me why vi is > in /usr/bin instead of /bin? It would be nice to be able to edit files > in /etc (especially the fstab) without /usr mounted on a vanilla install. IIRC, because vi has a lo

Re: placement of vi in the filesystem

1999-09-05 Thread Mark Newton
Ben Rosengart wrote: > I'm sure this is old ground, but could anyone please tell me why vi is > in /usr/bin instead of /bin? It would be nice to be able to edit files > in /etc (especially the fstab) without /usr mounted on a vanilla install. /bin/ed - mark Mark Newton

Re: placement of vi in the filesystem

1999-09-05 Thread Adrian Filipi-Martin
On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Ben Rosengart wrote: > I'm sure this is old ground, but could anyone please tell me why vi is > in /usr/bin instead of /bin? It would be nice to be able to edit files > in /etc (especially the fstab) without /usr mounted on a vanilla install. IIRC, because vi has a l

Re: placement of vi in the filesystem

1999-09-05 Thread Mark Newton
Ben Rosengart wrote: > I'm sure this is old ground, but could anyone please tell me why vi is > in /usr/bin instead of /bin? It would be nice to be able to edit files > in /etc (especially the fstab) without /usr mounted on a vanilla install. /bin/ed - mark Mark Newton

placement of vi in the filesystem

1999-09-05 Thread Ben Rosengart
I'm sure this is old ground, but could anyone please tell me why vi is in /usr/bin instead of /bin? It would be nice to be able to edit files in /etc (especially the fstab) without /usr mounted on a vanilla install. -- Ben UNIX Systems Engineer, Skunk Group StarMedia Network, Inc. To Unsubsc

placement of vi in the filesystem

1999-09-05 Thread Ben Rosengart
I'm sure this is old ground, but could anyone please tell me why vi is in /usr/bin instead of /bin? It would be nice to be able to edit files in /etc (especially the fstab) without /usr mounted on a vanilla install. -- Ben UNIX Systems Engineer, Skunk Group StarMedia Network, Inc. To Unsubs