[KLUG Members] Good heavens, a distro without vi ?!?

[Robert G. Brown]

It's funny, I was talking to someone about this recently (was it Bruce??)...

Yesterday afternoon, I installed SOT Linux on a machine that I had just built
and wanted to smoke test... new distro, new machine, so why not give both a
whirl?

It didn't take a lot of poking around (like three commands) to encounter a
"vi: command not found" message. I thought it was a fluke, some funny choice
on the part of the distribtors. I started a superuser session and tried 
again... nope.. then find... also not here.

I have been playing with one UNIX-like system or another, an and off, since 
1985, and I have never, never, NEVER seen a default install that did not 
include vi or a close variant that worked on a command line...I'll hunt 
about on the SOT Linux CD and see if they supply it....

Sheesh!

We were talking about vi always being there last week and now it has
happend. I mentioned World Peace today...hmmm.... funny things can happen! :)

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