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

[Wesley Leonard]

Did you try running vim ?

Hehe...  just something to check.

l8er

On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 18:39, Robert G. Brown wrote:
> 
> 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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Wesley Leonard

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